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Summary

A disturbed cairn composed of soil and stone 4.0m in overall diameter and a maximum 0.6m high. It has a ragged, 1.3 diameter 0.4m deep central pit: spoil from this pit is spread across the mound. There is no evidence of a retaining kerb.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1013429: Three stone alignments, ten cairns, three stone hut circles and a length of the Great Western Reave on Longash Common

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX57SE100
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 440312
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57SE/282
• Old SAM County Ref: 333
• Old SAM Ref: 24193

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CAIRN (Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 173 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

(October 1975) Cairn, diameter 3.6 metres and height 0.3 metres.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1980, SX57SE100 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV251885.

(13/03/1980) A small but distinct cairn, its stone content exposed by a central excavation, situated at SX55357471. The diameter is recorded correctly by Grinsell, but the height 0.5 meters. Surveyed at 1:10 000 on MSD and at 1:2500 (See SX 57 SE 12).

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 133489 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(11/08/1995) Cairn (SX55347472); forms part of a cluster of Neolithic and Bronze Age ritual features including at least three stone alignments, a stone circle, 13 cairns and a standing stone. Lies between two stone alignments. Mound measures 4.3 metres in diameter and stands up to 0.5 metres high. A central hollow, 1.1 metres by 1.0 metre by 0.4 metres deep, may represent the site of a partial excavation or robbing.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 31, Map 44, Figure 44.7 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Cairn '9' at Merrivale at SX55357472 of 3.6 metres diameter by 0.3 metres high and pitted in the centre.

Probert, S. A. J. + Fletcher, M. J., 2000, The Merrivale Guardianship Area, Walkhampton, Devon, 5 (Report - Survey). SDV344969.

(30/10/1999) SX55357472. A disturbed cairn composed of soil and stone 4.0m in overall diameter and a maximum 0.6m high. It has a ragged, 1.3 diameter 0.4m deep central pit: spoil from this pit is spread across the mound. There is no evidence of a retaining kerb. Listed by Butler as a 3.6m diameter cairn pitted at the centre.

Dartmoor National Park + English Heritage, 2004, Merrivale: An Archaeological Landscape (Leaflet). SDV320201.

DCMS, 2004, Untitled Source (Correspondence). SDV320222.

Scheduled Monument Consent granted for works concerning a five year programme of management works including erosion repairs.

Ordnance Survey, 2010, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV344030.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, MER-17 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

Visited 2/10/2019. Cairn covered with grass. Overall condition very good. Photo taken.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs, MER-17 (Photograph). SDV363073.

Photo looking 310° showing grass cover.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV4840 - Archaeological Excavations at the Devon Great Consols Incline Portal, Morwellham Quay, 2006
• EDV4843 - Repair work at Merrivale
• EDV4844 - Repair work at Merrivale

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