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Summary

Badly mutilated cairn at Western Beacon which has a diameter of circa 23 metres and a height of circa 2.5 metres.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1017600: Cairn on the southern brow of Western Beacon

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX65NE37
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 441204
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX65NE/208
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX65NE/311
• Old SAM Ref: 10610

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• (Alternate Type) RING CAIRN? (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))
• ROUND CAIRN (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Crossing, W., 1912 (1965), Crossing's Guide to Dartmoor, 394 (Monograph). SDV320981.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX65NE37 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV167152.

(24/03/1950) Cairn. Badly mutilated. Estimated measurements 18m diameter and 1.7m high.

National Monuments Record, 1969, SX6557, 2/7-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDV165212.

Hankin, C. F., 1977-1980, Harford Parish Checklist (Worksheet). SDV149931.

(May 1976) 321m OD. Ugborough. A large cairn, uncovered stones of no more than medium size. The site is subject to a great deal of modern disturbance and the cairn is without shape. Measurements are practically useless.

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 141, Harford 23. (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

(23/06/1973) Shapeless cairn. Measures 23m in diameter, 2.5m high.

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

Small cairn visible on 1969 National Monuments Record aerial photographs. Cairn marked on map overlay.

Ancient Monuments, 1990, Notes on cairns (Schedule Document). SDV165222.

Cairn consisting of stone and earth base surmounted by a mound of stones measuring 25m in diameter and 1.8m high. Visitors have moved stones around to form shelters.

Turner, J. R., 1990, Ring Cairns, Stone Circles and Related Monuments on Dartmoor, 67/A30. (Article in Serial). SDV229817.

Western Beacon SX 6556 5769 Ring cairn on level, east-south-east hillslope. Internal diameter measures 4m with bank 0.7m wide and 0.2m high.
[NB: Turner's grid reference seems suspect and this location is supported by the aerial evidence, as well as later sources. Records merged. Richards, A. F., 13/12/2021].

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 34-6, 244, Map 53, Figure 53.13 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Western Beacon cairn '5' at SX65395762 of 24 metres by 3.0 metres is much pitted and spread around the edge but is still a good size.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 2015-2017, 2015-2017 Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV361462.

Visible on the aerial photography.

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

One of fifty cairns recorded during survey.

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

Not recorded in gazeteer but visited on 8th January 2021 and surveyed.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

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

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