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Summary

A turf covered stoney cairn south-west of a small settlement on Shovel Down. 1991 Survey recorded measurements of 4.9 metres diameter, height 0.65 metres. A stone filled hollow 1.9 metres by 0.2 metres deep lies slightly east of centre. No traces of a cist or a retaining circle.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1017874: The North Teign coaxial field system (western part) and associated later remains at Shovel Down, Stonetor Hill and Long Ridge

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68NE111
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68NE/271
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68NE/302
• Old SAM Ref: 28663
• Pastscape: 889100

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 143958, 1997 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Cairn at SX65758586. Diameter 6.2 metres, height 0.6 metres. Central pit 1.8 metres by 1.5 metres by 0.3 metres deep. A ring of stones around outer edge of pit may be structural.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 176-179, 243, Map 36.6, 36.7 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Forty metres outside the south-west corner of the hut circle settlement and prehistoric fields on Shovel Down is a small, solitary cairn (5.0 by 0.3 metres), that has been dug into, the displaced stones subsequently returned to the central pit where they lie in a loose pile. Butler also mentions another cairn 250 metres north of the enclosures.

Radcliffe, B., 1999, Cairn on Shovel Down (Worksheet). SDV250168.

Cites Butler's (1991, pages 176, 243) description.

Ordnance Survey, 2018, MasterMap 2018 (Cartographic). SDV360652.

Cairn is depicted on the modern mapping.

Historic England, 2018, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV360653.

See designation record for full description.

National Monument Record, 2018, Pastscape (Website). SDV360651.

A turf covered stoney cairn at SX65768588 situated near the crest of the north facing flank of Shovel Down 20 metres south of a small settlement. It measures 4.9 metres in diameter and survives to a height of 0.65 metres. A stone filled hollow 1.9 metres in diameter and about 0.2 metres deep lies slightly east of centre. There are no traces of a cist or a retaining circle (citing Probert, S. A. J., 16/8/1991, Royal Commission on the Historic Monuments in England Field Investigation).

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6198 - Geophysical Survey on Shovel Down and Kes Tor

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