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Summary

Oval cairn, 16 metres by 14 metres and 0.6 metres high. The central area (11 metres to 13 metres diameter) is very disturbed, with a small, off centre mound 0.6 metres high. The cairn has a rim 1.5 metres wide and 0.5 metres high, with a south-west facing gap, 2 metres wide. There is a single orthostat set into the rim on its east arc.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019591: Medieval farmstead and field system, post-medieval tinworks, prehistoric settlements and cairns north and west of Gibby Coombe

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66NE50
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66NE/89
• Old SAM Ref: 34427
• Pastscape: 441494

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX66NE50 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV173667.

(26/06/1977) Cairn at SX 67806873 is an oval cairn, 16 metres by 14 metres and 0.6 metres high, situated on a moderate south facing slope at 340 metres above OD. The central area 11 metres to 13 metres diameter is very disturbed, with a small, off centre mound 0.6 metres high. The cairn has a rim 1.5 metres wide and 0.5 metres high, with a south-west facing gap, 2 metres wide. There is a single orthostat set into the rim on its east arc. Discovered during field investigation. Surveyed at 1:10 000 on PFD.

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.

Not visible.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 152615 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Site visit 25th May 1999. Cairn at SX67816874. The eastern of two cairns at Gibby Coombe. Round cairn measuring 14 metres in diameter, 0.8 metres in height. Cairn has been robbed with an outer 2.0 metre wide ring surviving intact whilst the centre has been extensively robbed by at least five separate pits. Towards the eastern side of the mound is a substantial mound of loose stone which could be susceptible to re-arrangement. Vegetation in the area consists of bracken, grass and gorse.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 172-3 Map 58, Figure 58.8 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Mardle Valley '6' cairn at SX67816872 of 16.5 metres diameter by 0.6 metres high. Originally an outer bank seems to have surrounded a raised interior but this has become badly disordered and further damage has been caused to the edges by the well worn tracks approaching uphill from the ford across the Mardle.

Probert, S. A. J. + Newman, P., 1997, Holne Moor, Dartmoor, Devonshire. A Landscape Survey by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1:2500 plan (Report - Survey). SDV173671.

(06/01/1997) Cairn at SX 67816874 is heavily disturbed but is as described in 1977.

Gerrard, S., 2004, List of Sites Remaining to be Considered for Designation on Dartmoor (Un-published). SDV345444.

This site was considered for designation as a Scheduled Ancient Monument during the Monument Protection Programme. The programme ended before the entire list of sites was successfully scheduled so this is included on a local list of Nationally Important Sites.

English Heritage, 2005-2008, Prehistoric Survey Information (Cartographic). SDV345521.

Cairn shown on survey.

Richards, A. F., 2010, Cairn (Personal Comment). SDV173668.

Visited some time in 1982 (Hills, D.) A ring cairn (or cairn with kerb?-fmg) reported at SX67816873, average diameter 4.16 metres. No report of larger cairn described above: relationship of the two unclear. Other details: Note in parish file.

Ordnance Survey, 2010, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV344030.

'Cairn' shown on modern mapping

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1019591 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

Cairn just within the scheduled area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7100 - Holne Moor Survey

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