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Summary

Round cairn measures 5.3 metres in diameter and stands up to 0.3 metres high. Traces of a kerb are visible around the outer edge of the mound. Excavations carried out by the Dartmoor Barrow Committee revealed a pit cut into the subsoil, but no artefacts.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1018621: Two round cairns 120m south-east of Langstone Moor stone circle
• SHINE: Earthworks of three cairns on Langstone Moor circa 100 metres south-east of the Stone Circle

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX57NE14
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 439609
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57NE/28/1
• Old SAM Ref: 20382
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Baring Gould, S., 1898, Fifth Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, 112 (Article in Serial). SDV337066.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950/1978, SX57NE14 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV273369.

(10/07/1950) Cairn (remains of). In position as shown on field sheet. Dimeter 4.8 metres, height 0.4 metres. Turf covered, mutilated, no trace of retaining circle.
Cairn - not a barrow (08/05/1955).
(14/09/1978) On the south-east slope of Langstone Moor, at approximately 447.0m OD, is a grass-covered cairn 5.5m in diameter and 0.4m high. It has been mutilated by the remains of a kerb/or peristalith are still visible.
Revised at 1:10 000 on PFD. See ground photograph.

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 161 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

(22/6/1974) Cairn; remains of retaining circle, noted 1898, not now visible. Excavated in 1898 revealed central pit with no traces of interment. Diameter 4.5 metres, height 0.2 metres.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 76, 239, Map 30 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Langstone Moor 1 cairn at SX55747811 of 5.5 metres diameter by 0.3 metres high. Several loose blocks lie on the uneven surface of the northern cairn and two slabs of a retaing circle remain around the edge. A central pit had been dug into but with no trace of an internment or charcoal.

Newman, P., 2003, The Langstone Moor Stone Circle, Peter Tavy, Devon and its Prehistoric Environs, 5, Figs 1 & 2 (Report - Survey). SDV255420.

Cairn No. 10. (01/10/2003) Resurveyed at 1:2500 using GPS Sept 2003.

Newman, P., 2004, Merrivale Range Baseline Condition Survey (Report - Survey). SDV346874.

The cairn was heavily disturbed in the 19th century but is now in a stable condition. Stone circle or kerb described by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee in 1898 is no longer visible.

Newman, P., 2004, Merrivale Range Baseline Condition Survey (Report - Survey). SDV346874.

(10/08/2004) The cairn was heavily disturbed in the 19th century but is now in a stable condition. Stone circle or kerb described in TDA 1898 (pg 112) is no longer visible

English Heritage, 2005-2008, Prehistoric Survey Information (Cartographic). SDV345521.

Map object based on this source.

GeoInformation Group Ltd, 2010, 1:625 2010 Colour (12.5cm resolution) (Aerial Photograph). SDV346026.

Cairn visible on aerial photograph. Map object based on this source.

Probert, S. A. J., 2010, A Condition Survey of the Archaeological Sites of Merrivale Range, Dartmoor Training Area (Report - Survey). SDV360515.

The cairn was heavily disturbed in the 19th century but is now in a stable condition. Stone circle or kerb described by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee in 1898 is no longer visible.

Historic England, 2017, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV359963.

This monument includes two round cairns aligned north-east to south-west and situated prominently on a hill crest overlooking the valley of the river Walkham.
The northern cairn mound measures 5.3 metres in diameter and stands up to 0.3 metres high. Traces of a kerb are visible around the outer edge of the mound. Excavations carried out by the Dartmoor Barrow Committee revealed a pit cut into the subsoil, but no artefacts.

National Monument Record, 2017, Pastscape, 1978 data (Website). SDV359964.

On the south-east slope of Langstone Moor, at approximately 447.0 metres OD, is a grass-covered cairn 5.5 metres in diameter and 0.4 metres high. It has been mutilated by the remains of a kerb /or peristalith are still visible.
Revised at 1:10 000 on PFD (citing Ordnance Survey Field Investigators Comments, 14/09/1978).

Newman, P., 2018, Archaeological Sites within Merrivale Training Area, Dartmoor National Park, Devon: A condition survey on behalf of Defence Infrastructure Organisation, 10/01/2018 (Report - Survey). SDV361635.

A turf covered round cairn to the south of the Langstone Moor stone circle, which was heavily disturbed in the 19th century.

Ordnance Survey, 2022, Mastermap 2022 (Cartographic). SDV364674.

Northern of two 'Cairns' shown on modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7275 - Survey of the Langstone Moor stone circle and other prehistoric monuments nearby
• EDV7441 - Condition survey of the archaeological sites of Merrivale Training Area
• EDV7570 - Condition survey of Merrivale Range training area
• EDV8405 - Excavation at cairn on Langstone Moor
• EDV8713 - Merrivale Range: Monument Baseline Condition Survey

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