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Summary

Two circular cairns and an ovoid cairn lie within an enclosure, forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill. The two circular mounds measure 4 metres and 6.3 metres in diameter and stand up to 0.4 metres and 0.7 metres high respectively. The larger mound has a central hollow, measuring 2.3 etresm by 1.2 metres by 0.15 metres deep, suggesting that it has been robbed or partially excavated. A length of lynchet measuring 1 metre wide and 0.3 metres high leads from the large cairn to a nearby ring cairn. The ovoid cairn is aligned east-west and measures 4.7 metres by 2.3 metres by 0.4 metres high.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1010774: Two circular cairns, an ovoid cairn and a ring cairn lying within an enclosure forming part of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX59SE48
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 967741?
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX59SE/58/2
• Old SAM Ref: 24149

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CAIRN (Constructed, Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 133344 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(31/01/1994) SX 5623 9037 These two circular cairns and ovoid cairn lie within an enclosure, forming part of a cairnfield.
The two circular mounds measure 4m and 6.3m in diameter and stand up to 0.4m and 0.7m high respectively. The larger mound has a central hollow, measuring 2.3m by 1.2m by 0.15m deep, suggesting that it has been robbed or partially excavated. A length of lynchet measuring 1m wide and 0.3m high leads from the large cairn to a nearby ring cairn. The ovoid cairn is aligned east-west and measures 4.7m by 2.3m by 0.4m high.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 221-222, 246, Map 43, Site '15' (Monograph). SDV219155.

Some of the over 20 round and oval cairns within Homerton Hill cairn cemetery.

English Heritage, 1994, Schedule note (Schedule Document). SDV230529.

(20/09/1994) SX56249037 Two circular cairns, an oval cairn and a ring cairn were recorded lying within an enclosure, forming part of a cairnfield situated on a gentle north west facing slope of Homerton Hill overlooking the valley of the west Okement River. The cairns are of Bronze Age date.

Probert, S. A. J. + Newman, P., 2003-2004, Measured survey North Dartmoor Military Range Okehampton Range: Monument Baseline Condition Survey (Report - Survey). SDV350801.

Historic England, 2024, National Heritage List for England, 101774 (National Heritage List for England). SDV365835.

This monument includes two circular cairns, an ovoid cairn and a ring cairn lying within an enclosure, forming part of a cairnfield situated on a gentle north west facing slope of Homerton Hill overlooking the valley of the West Okement River. Other cairns and a length of bank lie in the immediate vicinity and these are covered by separate schedulings. The two circular mounds measure 4 metres and 6.3 metres in diameter and stand up to 0.4 metres and 0.7 metres high respectively. The larger mound has a hollow in its centre, suggesting that it has been robbed or partially excavated. The ovoid cairn is aligned east to west and measures 4.7 metres long, 2.3 metres wide and 0.4 metres high. The ring cairn has seen considerable damage to its north western side and now survives as a 2 metres wide and 0.4 metres high `C' shaped bank which would have originally enclosed an area 7 metres in diameter. A 1 metre wide and 0.3 metre high lynchet leads from the ring cairn to the largest of the circular mounds. The enclosure surrounding these cairns survives as two separate lengths of rubble bank. These were probably once connected by further lengths of walling which now survive as buried features. The interior of the enclosure measures 100 metres north west to south east by at least 96 metres south west to north east, and the surrounding rubble bank is 3 metres wide and 0.4 metres high. A small gap in the south eastern length of the boundary wall may represent an original entrance.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8679 - Okehampton Range: Management Survey
• EDV8291 - Okehampton Range: Monument Baseline Condition Survey
• EDV8695 - Survey of Okehampton North Dartmoor Military Range

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