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Summary

Two stone clearance cairns and small stone heaps probably of Medieval or later origin. Located on the edge of an enclosed Bronze Age settlement (SX 57 SE 122) these features probably represent land clearance.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1011250: Stone hut circle settlement 360m north-east of Leather Tor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX57SE128
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 440396
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57SE/273
• Old SAM Ref: 22230

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ENCLOSURE? (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))
• CAIRN (Medieval - 1066 AD (Between) to 1539 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1980, SX57SE128 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV251848.

(28/06/1980) Two cairns noted by T. Greeves (undated comment, Dartmoor National Park Authority Field Officer) are at SX 56487019 on a southeast slope within a conifer plantation. The western one (see plan with SX 57 SE 127) is a pile of rubble 3.0m. long, 1.1m. wide, and 0.6m. high. It is almost certainly a clearance heap. The other is a right angled bank of rubble 0.5m.high piled against and on the top of four massive slabs, two upright and two fallen. This also appears to be clearance but heaped against what may have been the remnants of a hut circle.
Not surveyed on M.S.D.

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

Not recorded.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 130679 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(02/06/1992) Probably part of an enclosure boundary. See SX57SE/151/13.

Fletcher, M. J., 2007-2008, Walkhampton Premier Archaeological Landscape; Field Investigation Project (Report - Survey). SDV359195.

(04/02/2008) Two stone clearance cairns and small stone heaps probably of Medieval or later origin. Located on the edge of an enclosed BA settlement (SX 57 SE 122) these features probably represent land clearance. Surveyed at 1:2500 scale.

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

Features shown on modern mapping one of which may be part of an enclosure.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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