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Summary

A small cairn close to the tor which appears to have been a ring cairn surrounding a small free-standing granite outcrop.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019603: Coaxial fields, prehistoric settlements and cairns on Halshanger and Horridge Commons, forming part of the Rippon Tor coaxial field system

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX77NW/378

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• RING CAIRN (Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Quinnell, H., 1986, Cairn at Rippon Tor (Worksheet). SDV295396.

Cairn around base of small tor of Rippon Tor. Diameter 9.0 metres, height 0.65 metres. Slight depression around base of tor within cairn may not be original feature.

Newman, P., 2013, An Archaeological Assessment of Halshanger and Horridge Commons, Dartmoor, Devon, 4, Table 1 (Report - Assessment). SDV356396.

A small cairn close to the tor which appears to have been a ring cairn surrounding a small free-standing granite outcrop. Condition stable.

Newman, P., 2013, Halshanger Sites Visited and Confirmed (Report - Survey). SDV351113.

Site visited and grid reference confirmed.

English Heritage, 2014, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV355683.

Part of the Rippon Tor coaxial field system. There are ten cairns within the monument, half of which stand at or near the summit of Rippon Tor. Some 20 metres to the south [of the summit cairn] is a tor cairn consisting of a 7 metre diameter and 0.7 metres high stoney earthwork surrounding a small granite pillar.

Newman , P., 2015, Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, 57 (Report - Survey). SDV359145.

A possible ring cairn that surrounds a small free-standing granite outcrop, just east of the main pile. Condition is stable, SX74670 75550

Various, 2018-2019, PALs Condition Recording forms, RT2 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

Visited January 2019. Human activity noted with a picnic shelter in evidence. Photos X 2 taken

Various, 2018-2019, PALs Condition Recording photographs, RT2 (Photograph). SDV363073.

Visited January 2019 Photos X 2 taken Both looking north west, one showing a picnic shelter

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6433 - Assessment of Halsanger Common, Horridge Common and Rippon Tor
• EDV6836 - Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape survey

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