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Summary

A cairn 7 metres in diameter and 0.4 metres high composed of earth and small stones. It has a central hollow 0.5 metres deep with displaced slabs on its sides with the remains of a badly robbed cist. Double stone row (MDV14875) leads away from it downhill, northwards.

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: SX68NE34
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 443580
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68NE/60
• Old SAM County Ref: 144
• Old SAM Ref: 28663

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ormerod, G. W., 1857-1858, On some British and druidical remains in the parishes of Chagford and Gidleigh, 22 (Article in Serial). SDV274183.

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

'Kistvaen (remains of)' shown on 19th century map.

Worth, R. H., 1902, 21st Report of the Barrow Committee, 115 (Article in Serial). SDV20971.

Worth, R. H., 1932, The Prehistoric Monuments of Scorhill, Buttern Hill, and Shuggledown (Shoveldown), 283 (Article in Serial). SDV239731.

Fox, A., 1957, Cairns and stone alignments on Shovel Down, 155-158 (Article in Serial). SDV348211.

Fox, A., 1973, South West England 3,500BC - AD600 (Revised Edition), 70 (Monograph). SDV16216.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1974, SX68NE34 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV273616.

SX65988591 Cairn with cist.
A barrow, 13 feet in diameter, which was sited at the southern end of a stone row (SX68NE16 'C') may have contained a cist (citing Worth, 1932, 285).
A small cairn, 22 feet in diameter and about 2 feet high, is sited just below the crest of the ridge. The centre has been robbed and the tumbled slabs of a cist have been exposed. No finds were recorded (citing Archaeological Journal 114, 1957, 158).
As described above, turf-covered and in fair condition. Resurveyed at 1:2500 at SX65988591 (Ordnance Survey, 08/07/1974).

National Monuments Record, 1977, NMR SX6685, 9 (Aerial Photograph). SDV254388.

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 134 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

23/4/1973 Ruined cairn at the end of Row 36, Worth, (SX68NE/110). No sign of remains of cist seen by Ormerod.

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

Visible on the National Monuments Record aerial photographs and recorded on the map overlay.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1987-1993, Duchy Farms Project Survey Visit, R. Wilson-North (Report - Survey). SDV350839.

(19/09/1991) SX 65998591. A cairn 7 metres in diameter and 0.4 metres high composed of earth and small stones. It has a central hollow 0.5 metres deep with displaced slabs on its sides with the remains of a badly robbed cist. The cairn occupies the north-west crest of a shallow combe between Shovel Down and Chagford Common and has very extensive views to the north and north-west. It lies at the end of a double stone row (MDV14875).
(see RCHME survey of The Shovel Down Stone Rows (part 1) at 1:200).

Griffith, F. M., 1989, DAP/LT, 8-10 (Aerial Photograph). SDV346554.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 143948, 1997 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Round cairn, diameter 7 metres, height 0.8 metres. Central pit 2.2 metres by 1.5 metres by 0.6 metres deep. A small number of edge set stones around edge of mound may indicate a kerb.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 178-183, 243, Map 36, Figure 36.7 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Cairn at the end of Shovel Down Row '4' at SX65998580 of 7.0 metres diameter by 0.3 metres high with a cental pit which once contained a cist.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 183; Fig 36.13 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Cairn at the southern (uphill) end of stone row 4 measures 7.0 by 0.3 metres with a central pit that one contained a cist, now no longer visible.

Griffith, F. M., 20/02/1987, DAP/ID, 7-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDV306073.

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

Cairn shown on survey.

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

'Cairn' is depicted on the modern mapping, at the end of the double stone row.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6198 - Geophysical Survey on Shovel Down and Kes Tor
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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