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Summary

A low flat-topped mound measuring 7.3m north-south by 7.0m and standing a maximum of 0.4m high. An amorphous hollow lies slightly west of centre. While this feature appears in form to be a prehistoric cairn it overlies ridge and furrow and is associated with a number of tin pits that have been adapted for military training. At the earliest it is probably a post medieval stone clearance heap.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1012086: One of a group of three cairns on Ringmoor Down
• SHINE: Section of the Eylesbarrow Reave, a Bronze Age boundary work across Ringmoor Down, and adjacent Bronze Age cairns

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX56NE209
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1025082
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/532
• Old SAM Ref: 10667

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• (Former Type) CAIRN (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC (Between))
• CLEARANCE CAIRN (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD (Between))

Full description

Ancient Monuments, 1991, Schedule Amendment, Cairn B (Schedule Document). SDV253568.

A group of three cairns on Ringmoor Down are scheduled:
b) SX 5630 6628 5.0m in diameter and 0.5m high with a possible retaining kerb and slightly hollow centre. Scheduled: 10667.

Newman, P. + Probert, S., 2005, Ringmoor Training Area: Monument Baseline Condition Survey (Report - Survey). SDV363484.

(15/02/2005) SX 5632 6626. A low flat-topped mound measuring 7.3m north-south by 7.0m and standing a maximum of 0.4m high. An amorphous hollow lies slightly west of centre. While this feature appears in form to be a prehistoric cairn it overlies ridge and furrow and is associated with a number of tin pits that have been adapted for military training. At the earliest it is probably a post medieval stone clearance heap. The other features scheduled (MDV42768 and MDV42770) were formerly tin pits that have been reoccupied by the military in the more recent past.

Probert, S. A. J., 2010, A Condition Survey of the Archaeological Sites of Ringmoor, Dartmoor Training Area (Report - Survey). SDV360517.

Newman, P., 2018, Archaeological Sites within Ringmoor Training Area, Dartmoor National Park, Devon: A condition survey on behalf of Defence Infrastructure Organisation (Report - Survey). SDV361636.

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

(05/06/2019) Condition assessed as ?very good by volunteer recorders; no issues noted.

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

Feature photographed in June 2019.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7443 - Condition survey of archaeological sites in Ringmoor Training Area
• EDV7569 - Condition survey of Ringmoor Down training area
• EDV8227 - Ringmoor Training Area: Monument Baseline Condition Survey

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