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Summary

Remains of a Prehistoric cairn sited near the Three Parishes Stone to the north-east of Smallacombe Rocks on Haytor Down

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Earthworks of a Bronze Age parallel reave system with three main east-west boundary works, an enclosure hut circles and cairns, a medieval enclosure, a pillow mound, an area of post-medieval tin pits and a post-medieval field system on Haytor Down

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX77NE/54
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1946 - 1949, Royal Air Force Aerial Photographs, 540/226/5107 (Aerial Photograph). SDV342938.

Photograph taken on 23rd June 1949.

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

Site visited on 5th October 1975. Stony patch, presumed cairn robbed for stone for boundary bank. Diameter 3.5 metres, height 0.1 metre. Vis=visible and recorded (rchm app 1985).

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

Visible on aerial photograph and recorded.

Newman, P., 1999, 2002, Haytor Down, Ilsington, Devon (Revised), 6, Figure 2 (Report - Survey). SDV346395.

A very flat and ruinous cairn sited near the Three Parishes Stone at SX76347831. Its position coincides with a reave which occupies the parish boundary and seems to respect the position of the cairn.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 2002, Haytor Down: The Archaeology (Plan - measured). SDV359685.

Small circular earthwork shown on northern boundary of the survey.

English Heritage, 2005-2008, Prehistoric Survey Information (Report - Survey). SDV345521.

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

Shown as a 'Cairn' on modern mapping.

National Monument Record, 2016, Pastscape, 444990 (Website). SDV359354.

Remains of a cairn 0.4 metres high covered in grass and heather enclosing a core of stones.
Centred SX 7634 7831. A much flattened and despoiled cairn, sited 13 metres south-west of the Ilsington, Manaton, Bovey Tracey parish boundary stone. The cairn consist of a turf covered, low spread of small stones with a diameter of 8 metres by 0.2 metres high. The centre of the cairn shows signs of disturbance. The cairn was respected when the later east to west parallel reave was constructed, missing it by only a few metres, and the line of which was later to be adopted as the parish boundary.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7021 - Haytor Down: Survey Report (Ref: A1/2/1999)

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