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Summary

Cairn at southern end of stone row close to Sprurrell's Cross of 10.5 metres diameter by 0.3 metres high.with a central hollow. This was once surrounded by a ring of tall stones outside its base

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1012460: Spurrell's Cross stone alignment and cairn.

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX65NE16
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 441145
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX65NE/8/1
• Old SAM Ref: 10555

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

'Tumulus' shown on 19th century map.

Worth, R. H., 1908, The Stone Rows of Dartmoor, Part 8, 282 (Article in Serial). SDV345668.

The cairn, at the south end of the row is 50 feet in diameter with only two stones remaining of the retaining circle.

Crossing, W., 1912 (1965), Crossing's Guide to Dartmoor, 390 (Monograph). SDV320981.

Worth, R. H., 1946, The Stone Rows of Dartmoor. Part 1, 288-289 (Article in Serial). SDV251172.

As recorded in 1908.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950-1974, SX65NE16 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV150014.

(27/03/1950) Cairn 15.0m diameter and 0.7m high with two stones of retaining circle visible.
(1974) Not prominent, now being shapeless and overgrown. Has retaining circle with only two stones remaining.

Worth, R. H., 1967, Worth's Dartmoor, 206 (Monograph). SDV337618.

Cairn near Spurrell's Cross at the south end of stone row.

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 172, Ugborough 12 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

(23/06/1973) South-west of Spurrell's Cross, cairn at SX 65855985, 12 metres in diameter by 0.4 metres high, with two stones of retaining circle, from which double stone row descends to north-north-west.

National Monuments Record, 1980, NMR SF1743, 80 (Aerial Photograph). SDV161746.

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

Visible on the National Monuments Record 1980 aerial photograph.

Turner, J. R., 1990, Ring Cairns, Stone Circles and Related Monuments on Dartmoor, 54 78/F9 (Article in Serial). SDV229817.

Encircled cairn. Ring of orthostats 11m diameter, around cairn 8m in diameter and 0.4m high. Only three stones of the ring remain. Aligned west of centre of single stone row.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 28, Map 53, Figures 53.8 & 53.8.1 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Cairn (10.5 metres) at the head (south) of the double stone rows. Hollowed out and now only 0.3 metres high, this was once surrounded by a ring of tall stones outside its base, like the Butterdon Hill cairn. One still survives on the western margin earth fast at one end, one or two are buried and another lies a short distance away. The tops of small slabs showing through the turf within the mound are arranged in at least two inner concentric rings.

Ordnance Survey, 2018, MasterMap 2018 (Cartographic). SDV360652.

Cairn is shown on modern mapping.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs, UG3 (Photograph). SDV363073.

(21/12/2018) Site photographed during condition survey visit.

Riley, H., 2021, Archaeological Survey: Ugborough Premier Archaeological Landscape, Harford and Ugborough, 12 (Report - Survey). SDV364697.

Fifty round cairns were recorded in the survey.

Riley, H., 2021, UG21 heritage asset database and gazetteer of sites (Report - Survey). SDV364699.

Visited on 22nd April 2021, surveyed and photographed. Small platform cairn at south-east end of stone row MDV2890: 11 metres north to south, 12 metres east to west, 0.25 metres high; 2 recumbent stones may be part of retaining circle; hollow in mound.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8770 - Archaeological Survey: Ugborough Premier Archaeological Lanscape , Harford amd Ugborough

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