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Summary

Feature described by the Ordnance Survey in 1977 a 'small amorphous mound of indeterminate date and purpose' located 4.5 metres west of the southern cairn (MDV50265). Gerrard (1992) believes it to be a round cairn. Diameter 3 metres, height 0.5 metres. Not recorded by the Royal Commission during their 2007 survey visit.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1011169: Three round cairns 610m south west of Black Tor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX57SE77
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 440249
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57SE/100/3
• Old SAM Ref: 22287

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX57SE77, SX57SE77 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV277045.

(20/06/1977) Some 4.5 metres west of this cairn (MDV50265) is a small amorphous mound of indeterminate date and purpose. Surveyed at 1:10 000 on PFD.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 130748, 1992 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(SX56967130) round cairn. Diameter 3 metres, height 0.5 metres. Ordnance Survey are doubtful as to identity as a cairn, but funerary interpretation seems most plausible.

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

Black Tor cairns '6' to '11' at SX570713 have diameters between 2.5 to 5.0 metres and are between 0.3 and 0.6 metres high. They exist in the neighbouring field to the east of the two other cairns and are likely to be burial cairns. They are roughly circular turf covered structures with a few upended slabs showing above the surface. Possibly one of these may have contained the "very fine kistvaen …. on the shoulderof Black Tor" noticed by Baring-Gould but " destroyed by the road menders" some time before 1914.

Fletcher, M. J., 2007, Royal Commission survey (Report - Survey). SDV363347.

(30/05/2007) Only two cairns were identified. They are rather ragged and are all now covered by mature gorse vegetation.
Surveyed at 1:2500 scale

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, WLK-93 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

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

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs, WLK-93 (Photograph). SDV363073.

Photo looking 040° showing grass/moss cover with outcrops of bracken and gorse.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7518 - Survey of the Stanlake Prehistoric Settlement
• EDV8195 - Field Investigation Survey of the Stanlake settlement
• EDV8351 - Walkhampton Premier Archaeological Landscape; Field Investigation Project

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