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Summary

Round cairn, 9.5m diameter and 0.5m high is constructed of larger boulders than A or B and lies on a steeper clitter strewn slope.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019270: Four cairns 560m east of Hapstead Ford and 1660m east of Ryder's Hill, forming part of a cairn cemetery in the Mardle Valley

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66NE3
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 441357
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66NE/31
• Old SAM Ref: 28766.04

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CAIRN (Constructed, Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC (Between) to 1501 BC (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX66NE3 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV146433.

(26/06/1977) Three cairns lie on a steep south west facing slope between 395 metres and 380 metre above OD. C. SX 67616895. This round cairn, 9.5m diameter and 0.5m high is constructed of larger boulders than A or B and lies on a steeper clitter strewn slope.
Divorced Survey at 1:10 000 on PFD.

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.

Not visible on aerial photograph.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 152232 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(19/05/1999) Cairn at SX67616895 forming part of a cairn cemetery in the Mardle Valley. Round cairn. Diameter 9.8m, height 0.7m. A flat topped stoney mound with several hollows. A small number of edge set stones around the periphery may represent the remnants of a kerb. Grass, bracken and gorse.-

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 172-3, Map 58, Figure 58.8 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Mardle Valley '4' cairn at SX67616895 of 9.0 metres diamter by 0.4 metres high has been dug into.

Probert, S. A. J. + Newman, P., 1997, Holne Moor, Dartmoor, Devonshire. A Landscape Survey by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (Report - Survey). SDV173671.

(06/01/1997) Centred SX 67716905. These features are as described in 1977 though the NGRs should read:
A, SX 67636916
B, SX 67726904
C, SX 67626896
An additional cairn (D) lies at SX 67806893. This ovoid feature measures 4.5m N to S by 5.2m and stands 1.1m high. An amorphous hollow roughly 1.0m in diameter is situated in the centre of the mound.
A, B and D form part of a linear progression of cairns running roughly SE to NW across the hillside parallel to the River Mardle. Their line is extended by a ring cairn (SX 66 NE 66) to the NW.

English Heritage, 2005-2008, Prehistoric Survey Information (Cartographic). SDV345521.

Cairn shown on survey.

Ordnance Survey, 2021, MasterMap 2021 (Cartographic). SDV364015.

One of two 'Cairns' shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1019270 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

The monument, which falls into four areas of protection, includes four cairns, forming part of a cairn cemetery situated on a gentle south facing slope overlooking the valley of River Mardle. The southern cairn is flat-topped, 0.7 metres high and 9.9 metres in diameter. A number of edge edge set stones around the periphery of the mound represent a kerb. Hollows and trenches cutting into all four cairns indicate that they have been subjected to early undocumented investigations.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7100 - Holne Moor Survey

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