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Summary

Round cairn measuring 8.5 metres in diameter, height 0.9 metres. Central pit 3 metres by 2 metres by 0.2 metres deep. May represent a pre-reave building marker. Grass, gorse and heather covered mound. The eastern side is truncated by a corn ditch.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Earthworks and stone walling remains of an extensive Bronze Age field system, reaves, enclosures, cairns and hut circle settlements on Riddon Ridge overlain with a medieval field system and associated enclosures and Whiteslade post-medieval farmstead
• Scheduled Monument 1018930: Two irregular aggregate field systems with associated settlements, part of a coaxial field system, boundary stones and historic fields on Riddon Ridge

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NE/307/3
• Old SAM Ref: 28773
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ROUND CAIRN (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)

Full description

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 152115 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(17/03/1999) SX 6613 7634 Cairn at the northern end of a reave leading across Riddon Ridge. Round cairn measuring 8.5 metres in diameter, height 0.9 metres. Central pit 3 metres by 2 metres by 0.2 metres deep. May represent a pre-reave building marker. Grass, gorse and heather covered mound. The eastern side is truncated by a corn ditch.

English Heritage, 2015, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV357602.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project

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