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Summary

Possible Bronze Age cairn. A turf covered mound of stones with a height of 0.5 metres and a diameter of 4.5 metres; no encircling ditch.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68SE32
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 443821
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SE/76

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Whitley, N., 1855, Plan of Shapley Common Tor (Plan - sketch). SDV306838.

Whiteley's plan shows a feature "like the remains of a kistvain" in this position.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1953, SX68SE32 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV306839.

(19/03/1953) Possible Bronze Age cairn. A turf covered mound of stones with a height of 0.5 metres and a diameter of 4.5 metres; no encircling ditch. It is situated on top of a ridge, and though unusually small compared with other cairns in the vicinity, it is possibly a cairn. No trace of mutilation.
(15/06/1978) No change since report of 19/03/1953 : situated at SX 69848176.
Surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD.

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

Not visible on Royal Air Force / National Monuments Record aerial photographs.

Gibson, A., 1987, Personal comment regarding cairn north of Hookney Tor (Personal Comment). SDV306840.

Possibly a pile of rubble from building the wall.

ADAS, 1995, Site visit to Shapley Tor (Site Visit). SDV306842.

(Visited 10/2/1995) In stable condition.

Newman, P., 2002, Headland Warren and the Birch Tor and Vitifer Mines (Report - Survey). SDV363213.

(10/10/2000) SX 69848176. This cairn remains as described in 1953 though it is now largely obscured by heather. There are no traces of a cairn or cist.

Greeves, T. A. P., 2013, Cairn between Hookney Tor and Shapley Tor, Visited 19 & 24/05/13, Photograph attached (Worksheet). SDV351331.

(SX 69845 81774) Small discrete prehistoric round cairn on ridge between Hookney Tor and Shapley Tor. Measures 4.0 metres in diameter by approximately 0.5 metres in height. Some stones visible one of which may be a kerbstone. In good condition.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7139 - Headland Warren and the Birch Tor and Vitifer Mines Survey (Ref: A1/20/2001, A1/34/2002)

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