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Summary

One of two round cairns on the northern sector of Horridge Common, survives as a turf-covered mound with a base diameter of 11 metres. Covered by gorse at time of 2015 survey.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019603: Coaxial fields, prehistoric settlements and cairns on Halshanger and Horridge Commons, forming part of the Rippon Tor coaxial field system
• SHINE: Earthworks and stone walls of a Bronze Age parallel reave system on Mountsland, Halshanger and Horridge Commons, comprising the remains of a field system, hut circle settlements, enclosures and cairns, and surface remains of 19th century Hemsworthy Mine

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX77NE21
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 445036
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX77NE/50
• Old SAM Ref: 28774

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ROUND CAIRN (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1960, SX77NE21 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV314805.

(20/04/1960) SX 7546 7511. One of two bowl barrows, ditchless and heather covered. This one is 0.4 metres high. A 25" survey has been made.

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 142 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

(04/10/1975) Cairn, with small hollow centre. Diameter 10 metres, height 0.6 metres.

National Monuments Record, 1980, NMR SF1746, 159 (Aerial Photograph). SDV294996.

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

Visible on the aerial photographs and recorded on map overlay.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 152330 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(01/04/1999) Cairn 900 metres south-east of Rippon Tor summit lying within a coaxial field system on Horridge Common at SX75467512. Diameter 5.8 metres. Rubble wall 1.8 metres wide, 0.8 metres high. North-east sector of this hut has been removed. Severe animal poaching within. Bluebells and bracken.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume One - The East, Map 5 (Monograph). SDV299725.

Newman, P., 2015, Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, 50, figure 21 (Report - Survey). SDV359145.

A cairn on the northern sector of Horridge Common. One of two round cairns on the northern sector of Horridge Common, survives as a turf-covered mound with a base diameter of 11 metres. Covered by gorse at time of survey. SX75465 75119.

Ordnance Survey, 2016, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV359352.

Depicted on the modern mapping.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms (Worksheet). SDV362781.

(April 2019 visit) Condition recorded as bad; vegetation (grass/molinia) primary damage agent.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs (Photograph). SDV363073.

Image taken during April 2019 visit.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6836 - Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape survey

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