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Summary

Two pillow mounds to west and south of prehistoric settlement north of Blackbrook River. Once thought to have been cairns

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Earthwork and structural remains of a number of bronze age hut circles, medieval pillow and related fragments of enclosure

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67SW7
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 443253
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67SW/11
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• (Former Type) CAIRN (Constructed, Early Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 1501 BC)
• PILLOW MOUND (Constructed, Medieval - 1066 AD (Between) to 1539 AD (Between))

Full description

Prowse, A. B., 1901, The Antiquities of Ockery and Roundhill, Dartmoor, 498 (Article in Serial). SDV233834.

About 250 yards east-south-east of the largest hut circle on some rising ground beyond an intervening level is what looks like a small tumulus.

Royal Air Force, 1946 - 1949, Royal Air Force Aerial Photographs, 1890 1301 (Aerial Photograph). SDV342938.

Photograph taken on 10th December 1946.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950/1980, SX67SW7 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV234779.

(01/09/1950) A small round mound completely turf covered with traces of small shallow ditch round east, south and north sides. Appears to have been tampered with on north-west side. Condition generally good. Probably a small barrow. Diameter 5.5 metres, height 0.7 metres.
(23/01/1980) There are two pillow mounds at SX 61557420 and SX 61607419; they measure 5.5 metres by 4.7 metres and 0.9 metres in height and 8.3 metres by 3.0 metres and 0.5metres in height respectively. Both are ditched with their long axes pointing down the slope. The small size of the former evidently resulted in its mid-identification as a barrow. Surveyed at 1:10 000 and at 1:2500 for AO Records.

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 179 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

Site visited on 17th September 1974. Ditched mound believed pillow mound of rabbit warren. Diameter is 5.5 metres, height 0.7 metres.

Greeves, T. A. P., 1982, Dunnabridge Farm (Plan - measured). SDV266230.

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

Visible on aerial photograph and recorded.

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

(29/02/1988) At SX 61557420. A pillow mound situated on a slight south-west facing slope comprises a disturbed earthen mound 5.4 metres in diameter and 0.6 metres high. The ditch 1.7 metres wide and 0.4 metres deep fades on the downhill side.
At SX 61607419. A pillow mound situated on a south facing slope comprises a disturbed earthen mound approximately 8.3 metres by 3.4 metres with a maximum height of 0.5 metres. It is enclosed by a ragged ditch 1.3 metres wide and 0.3 metres deep which is silted on the downhill side; part appears to be rock-cut.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 226-9, Map 65, Figure 65.1 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Four pillow mounds shown as 'burys' at 'Round Hill East'

English Heritage, 2005, Survey Information (miscellaneous date) (Report - Survey). SDV345855.

Two pillow mounds shown on survey.

GeoInformation Group Ltd, 2010, 1:625 2010 Colour (12.5cm resolution) (Aerial Photograph). SDV346026.

Visible on aerial photograph.

Ordnance Survey, 2021, MasterMap 2021 (Cartographic). SDV364015.

Two pillow mounds shown on modern mapping

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8627 - Roundhill Farm Duchy Farms Survey
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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