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Summary

Cairn at west end of double alignment. Diameter 3.5 metres, height 0.4 metres. Possibly represents spoil from excavation of one of two other cairns in immediate vicinity. Survey in 2007 suggested these may be clearance cairns.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1011255: A double stone alignment and three cairns south-west of Black Tor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX57SE238
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1459767
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57SE/102/3
• Old SAM Ref: 22290

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CAIRN (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))
• CLEARANCE CAIRN (Constructed, Medieval - 1066 AD (Between) to 1539 AD (Between))

Full description

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 130683 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(08/10/1992) Cairn at end of double alignment. Diameter 3.5m, height 0.4m. Possibly represents spoil from excavation of one of two other cairns in immediate vicinity, though regular shape suggests otherwise.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 48-9, Map 45, Figures 45.11 & 45.11.2 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Black Tor cairn '3' at SX57017137 of 3.0 metres diameter by 0.3 metres high. Cairn a few metres to the east of the terminal cairn at the west end of the stone row is undamaged.

Gerrard, S., 1997, Meavy Valley Archaeology Interim Report for 1996, 10-11; fig 3 (Report - Survey). SDV360393.

Gerrard, S., 1997, Stanlake Prehistoric Stone Row, 7, 12; fig 6, 7 (Article in Serial). SDV360977.

A cairn cemetery developed around the south-western end of a stone row (SX 57 SE 35) are mostly small mounds, some of them apparently undug. A pair was sited remarkably close to the terminal cairn, one 4.5m by 0.3m high and the other 3m by 0.3m high. About 70m to the south-west is another pair only 5m apart and in similar condition - one 6m by 0.8m high trenched across the north edge and centre and the second 4m by 0.4m high with a retaining circle seemingly undisturbed. In the neighbouring field to the east at least half a dozen more mounds 2.5m to 5m across are also likely burial mounds. These are roughly circular turf-covered structures with a few upended slabs showing above the surface, quite different from the irregular piles of rubble dotting the well-cleared fields immediately downhill and further north.

Fletcher, M. J., 2007-2008, Walkhampton Premier Archaeological Landscape; Field Investigation Project (Report - Survey). SDV359195.

(13/10/2007) Cairns, probably field clearance cairns rather than funerary monuments. Surveyed at 1:2500 scale.
Butler has suggested that some of the cairns are of prehistoric date. While it is impossible to totally refute this, it does seem most likely that all the small cairns lying south-east of the row are associated with the historic field system rather than the row. An exception to this is the group to the south-west (SX 57 SE 77).

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, WLK-94 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

Visited 23/11/2019. Overall condition good. Photo taken.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs, WLK-94 (Photograph). SDV363073.

Photo looking 190° showing grass/moss cover with outcrops of gorse.

Historic England, 2019, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV362730.

The second cairn lies to the north-east of the first cairn and measures 5m in diameter and 0.5m high. A hollow in the centre of the mound suggests partial early excavation or robbing.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7521 - Survey of Stanlake prehistoric stone row
• EDV8351 - Walkhampton Premier Archaeological Landscape; Field Investigation Project

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