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Summary

A heather covered mound slightly to the north of the large cairn on the summit of Water Hill (see MDV6674). It measures 5.1 metres in diameter and up to 0.6 metres high with one recumbent granite boulder visible on its south side - it is apparently composed of earth and stone. The antiquity of this feature is doubtful but it may possibly be a small satellite of the summit cairn.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019225: Two cairns on the summit of Water Hill 450m north west of Warren House Inn

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68SE218
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 920234
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SE/359
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SE/91/1
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SE/91/2
• Old SAM Ref: 28745(P)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• MOUND (Unknown date)
• CAIRN? (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

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

(03/11/1992) SX 67168130. A heather covered mound slightly to the north of the large cairn on the summit of Water Hill (see SX 68 SE 19). It measures 5.1m in diameter and up to 0.6m high with one recumbent granite boulder visible on its south side - it is apparently composed of earth and stone.
The antiquity of this feature is doubtful but it may possibly be a small satellite of the summit cairn.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 52167 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(10/06/1999) Northern of two round cairns on the summit of Water Hill. Diameter 5.5m, height 0.7m. This cairn lies 6.4m at 350 degrees from the base of the large cairn. The mound is covered in heather and bilberry.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 36, 238, Map 26 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Water Hill cairn '2' at SX 67158129 of 5.0 metres diameter by 0.3 metres high. Northern of two cairns on the summit of Water Hill a few metres from the base of the larger cairn.

Environment Agency WMS, 2019, LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution), 2019 (Cartographic). SDV362956.

Visible on Lidar data.

Historic England, 2022, National Heritage List for England, 1019225 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364675.

The northern mound lies 6.4 metres from the other cairn, stands up to 0.7 metres high and is 5.5 metres in diameter.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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