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Summary

The southern cairn is skirted by the reave that runs from near West Glaze Head to the centre cairn and then continues northwards. A rocky cairn of loose granite 21m diameter, 1.3m high. The centre is much disturbed.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1012780: One of three cairns on Three Barrows, Ugborough Moor
• SHINE: Earthwork and walling remains of the Bronze Age Three Barrows Reave, as well as a deserted medieval farmstead and post-medieval Streamworks on Ugborough Moor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66SE54
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 441931
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SE/123
• Old SAM County Ref: 389
• Old SAM Ref: 10621

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Donn, B., 1765, A Map of the County of Devon (Cartographic). SDV339776.

Rowe, S., 1848, Perambulation of Dartmoor, 166 (Monograph). SDV154476.

Spence Bate, C., 1872, Researches into some Antient Tumuli on Dartmoor, 553 (Article in Serial). SDV336926.

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

'Tumuli' shown at 'Three Barrows' on 19th century map.

Worth, R. H., 1902, 21st Report of the Barrow Committee, 140 (Article in Serial). SDV20971.

Worth, R. H., 1937, 56th Report of the Barrow Committee, 81, Plate 3, Figure 2 (Article in Serial). SDV20973.

This south-eastern cairn is probably all in Brent parish. It covers the smallest area of the three cairns on Three Barrows. The stones around the perimeter are scattered. Measurements; diameter 14.6 metres, height 1.21 metres.

Worth, R. H., 1944, 63rd Report on Barrows, 40 (Article in Serial). SDV139295.

Worth cites a source of 1831 describing the damage done to the cairn at that time.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950/1977, SX66SE54 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV170314.

(22/03/1950) Mutilated cairn of diameter 21 metres, height 1.3 metres.
(19/07/1977) A cairn in a prominent situation at about 464m. above O.D. It is 22.0m. in diameter and 1.5m. high, mutilated by pits and shelters built into the perimeter. It exhibits no unusual characteristics.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on P.F.D.

Worth, R. H., 1967, Worth's Dartmoor, 163-4, 466, Plate 32a (Monograph). SDV337618.

National Monuments Record, 1969, NMR SX6463, 1/28-48 (Aerial Photograph). SDV165976.

Photographs taken on 12th April 1969.

Robinson, R., 1977-1979, South Brent Parish Checklist (Worksheet). SDV151046.

Site visited in April 1977 and October 1979. The southern cairn is skirted by the reave that runs from near West Glaze Head to the centre cairn and then continues northwards. A rocky cairn of loose granite 21 metres diameter, 1.3 metres high. The centre is much disturbed.

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 132, 168 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

Three very large cairns known as the Three Barrows (see SX 66 SE 55, 56).
(23/05/1973) Cairn, shapeless and mutilated. Diameter 23 metres, height 1.5 metres.

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

Visible on 1969 aerial photograph.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 64, Map 54 (Monograph). SDV337765.

South-eastern cairn at SX65346254 at Three Barrows of 22.0 metres diameter by 1.6 metres high has been badly damaged.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 2015-2017, 2015-2017 Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV361462.

Visible on aerial photograph.

Newman, P., 2018, The Upper Erme Valley, Dartmoor National Park, Devon: An Archaeological Survey (Report - Survey). SDV362921.

Resurveyed in 2018.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1012780 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

The south-eastern of a group of 3 large cairns sited on a hill known as 'Three Barrows'. Formed by a mound of stones on a stone and earth base of 20.0 metres diameter, 1.5 metres high.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8082 - Survey of the Upper Erme Valley

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