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Summary

Cairn, hollow towards centre. Retaining circle of c.28 upright slabs, mostly turned inwards. Diameter 18.0m, height 0.6m.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1003297: Two cairns on Cator Common
• SHINE: Earthwork remains of Medieval or later field system on central Cator Common, with Bronze Age reave

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67NE7
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442453
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NE/3
• Old SAM County Ref: 1007B

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

ANCIENT MONUMENTS, REES, Untitled Source (Report - Survey). SDV298941.

Vis=4/5/1977 (ancient monuments, rees). Cairn 6: 15 feet diameter, 3 feet high, of small stones overgrown with gorse and heather on unenclosed moorland.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV298946.

Osa=sx67ne7. Cairn is on cator common (osa). Stone circle containing the tumulus is almost exactly like the one half mile north (O. G. S. Crawford citing Breton, undated):
Cairn, to the south-west of (a) - (SX 67 NE45), 15 ft. diameter and 3 ft high; comprised of small stones overgrown with gorse and heather on unenclosed moorland (H. H. Breton).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV298949.

Dcra widecombe survey/(1979)vol v 959. Ring cairn, containing tumulus.

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map (Cartographic). SDV325644.

(SX 67427800) Tumulus (NR).

RAF, 1951, 540/483, 3041-3042 (Aerial Photograph). SDV224110.

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 176 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

(18/06/1972) Cairn, hollow towards centre. Retaining circle of c.28 upright slabs, mostly turned inwards. Diameter 18.0m, height 0.6m.

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

The cairn and the ring cairn are very clearly visible on RAF 1951 aerial photograph.

Turner, J. R., 1990, Ring Cairns, Stone Circles and Related Monuments on Dartmoor, 38-9 60 70 fig 12, b3 (Article in Serial). SDV229817.

Turner describes this site as an embanked circle; an annular bank or earth and/or stones with an inner edge of orthostats. Inner diam 13.8 with bank 1.5m wide and 0.5m high. May have been altered in antiquity with one third of the circumference of the inner kerb masked by a bank similar to a ring cairn. Stones lean inwards. Much disturbed (turner).

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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