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Summary

Oval cairn, 12 metres by 11 metres overall and 0.9 metres high with a regular central depression, 6 metres diameter and 0.9 metres deep. The surround is noticeably dipped to the east-south-east on the long axis, where it is only 0.6 metres high. The even turf cover of the stones and the regular profile suggest that this cairn has not been disturbed and maintains its original form as a hollow top cairn.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019269: Cairn cemetery 900m north east of Hapstead Ford and 2km WSW of Fore Stoke

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66NE2
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 441354
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66NE/28
• Old SAM Ref: 28765

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CAIRN (Constructed, Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC (Between) to 1501 BC (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

'Tumuli' shown on 19th century map.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX66NE2 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV146383.

(20/04/1950) Cairn circa height 1.1 metres, diameter 14.5 metres. Turf and heather covered, with large hollow in centre.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX66NE2 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV146397.

(26/06/1977) These 3 cairns lie on the crest, at the north east end of a ridge at 41 metres above OD. Cairn 'C' at SX 67986963 is an oval cairn, 12 metres by 11 metres overall and 0.9 metres high
with a regular central depression, 6 metres diameter and 0.9 metres deep.
The surround is noticeably dipped to the east-south-east on the
long axis, where it is only 0.6 metres high. The even turf cover of the
stones and the regular profile suggest that this cairn has not
been disturbed and maintains its original form as a hollow
top cairn.
1:10 000 survey on PFD correct. Section 1:100 on 495.

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 142 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

Site visited on 13th September 1973. Cairn with large hollow centre. Diameter 14 metres, height 1.1 metres.

National Monuments Record, 1979, NMR SF1457, 450 (Aerial Photograph). SDV172921.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 152224 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(19/05/1999) One of 5 cairns on Holne Lee situated 2 kilometres south-west of Fore Stoke.
Diameter 13.3m, height 1.3m. Central pit 4.8m by 4m by 0.7m deep. Spoil thrown out to form a heap on southern side.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 171-2, Map 58, Figure 58.7 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Holne Lee '4' at SX67986962 of 11.5 metres diameter by 1.4 metres has been trenched and hollowed out to ground level

Probert, S. A. J. + Newman, P., 1997, Holne Moor, Dartmoor, Devonshire. A Landscape Survey by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (Report - Survey). SDV173671.

(06/01/1997) Group centred SX 67916960. These features are as described in 1977. The additional feature described by Grinsell is somewhat enigmatic. While from some aspects it resembles a cairn it is probably the debris from a prospecting pit allied to the nearby extensive tinworking remains.
A further cairn (SX 66 NE 124) lies 60m to the SW at SX 67766950.

Ordnance Survey, 2021, MasterMap 2021 (Cartographic). SDV364015.

'Mound' shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1019269 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

The monument, which falls into three areas of protection, includes five cairns forming a cairn cemetery situated on a high ridge on Holne Lee overlooking the valley of the River Dart. Four of the mounds contain pits which indicate that they have been subjected to early undocumented investigations. The eastern cairn includes a 13.3 metres diameter mound standing up to 1.3 metres high. In the centre of the mound is a 4.8 metres long by 4 metres wide and 0.7 metres deep pit. Spoil thrown up during the digging of this pit forms a heap on the southern side of the cairn.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7100 - Holne Moor Survey

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