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Summary

Cairn and cist south of Barn Hill of 5.7 metres diameter by 0.2 metres high with a cist of 1.0 metres by 0.6 metres and 0.3 metres deep

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1020007: Cairn and cist on Barn Hill, 840m north east of Moortown Farm

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX57SW27
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 440455
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57SW/50
• Old SAM Ref: 22367
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX57SW27
• Pastscape: 440455

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Fox, A., 1973, South West England 3,500BC - AD600 (Revised Edition), 70 (Monograph). SDV16216.

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 176 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

SX 53437458 Visited in May 1976. Cairn enclosing a cist aligned south-south-west to north-north-east. The capstone is missing. Diameter of cairn 4.6 metres height 0.15 metres

Turner, J., 1978, Field work on Dartmoor, 3 (Article in Serial). SDV225201.

Barnes Hill. Cairn 4.5 metres diameter. Cist 0.5 metresby 0.65 metres. No capstone.

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

Not visible on RAF 1946 verticals.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 33-4, Map 44, figure 44.8 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Barn Hill S Cairn at SX53327457 of circa 5.0 metres diameter by 0.1 metres high with a cist. The cist on the southern flank of Barn Hill is not easy to locate amongst the scattered up-ended blocks naturally disposed over this part of the hillside. The four sides of the cist are in place but the capstone has gone as has most of the mound. A few flat slabs lying in an arc around the east side give a rough guide to its original dimensions.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1020007 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

(SX 53337458. A Bronze Age cairn and cist on Barn Hill. The cairn mound measures 5.7 metres in diameter and stands up to 0.2 metres high. The cist lies slightly south of the cairn's centre and survives as a 0.98 metre long by 0.6 metre wide and 0.3 metre deep stone-lined pit. Scheduled Monument Notification, 07/03/2002).

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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