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Summary

One of several Prehistoric cairns running south from Blackslade Ford surmounted by a stone marking the boundary between Buckland in the Moor and Ashburton parishes

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Earthworks of a Bronze Age cairn 100 metres south-east of Blackslade Ford, surmounted with a boundary stone inscribed "EPB 1837"

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX77NW82
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 445195
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX77NW/130

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Crossing, W., 1912 (1965), Crossing's Guide to Dartmoor, 330 (Monograph). SDV320981.

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 178 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

Site visited on 1st August 1976. SX 73707511 Cairn, hollow centred, diameter 16.5 metres height 0.9 m,etres surmounted by stone inscribed "EPB 1837".

Belsey, P. M., 1983 - 1987, Buckland In The Moor Parish Checklist (Un-published). SDV345904.

Site visited on 3rd April 1983. The boundary stone has been planted on an irregular pile of stone 9 metres in diameter. The wall of a Medieval settlement passes over the northern segment. There are many tinners' burrows by the Blackslade Water close by.

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, SX77NW (Cartographic). SDV345445.

Not visible on aerial photographs.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume One - The East, 113-4 (Monograph). SDV299725.

Cairns and earthworks on Blackslade Down and Buckland Common. Cairn 'a' was about 16 metres in diameter and is the first of a linear arrangement of earthworks running south along the hillside to Cold Cross East and continuing along the ridge of Buckland Common to Buckland Beacon. Some of these are little more than a scatter of small stones around low mounds or banks and might easily be overlooked but for the boundary stones set within many of them. The earthworks are probably the remains of Prehistoric cairns and are the reason for the irregular course of the parish boundary between Blackslade Ford and Buckland Common which was laid out when these structures were more prominent. Other details: Map 10.

Brown, M., 1996, A guide to the Parish of Buckland-in-the-Moor, 12 (Monograph). SDV361770.

Gerrard, S., 2004, List of Sites Remaining to be Considered for Designation on Dartmoor (Un-published). SDV345444.

Cairns south of Blackslade Ford were considered for designation as a Scheduled Ancient Monument in 2004. Other details: Site 39.

Gerrard, S., 2006, Dartmoor Nationally Important Sites (Cartographic). SDV345607.

Ordnance Survey, 2010, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV344030.

Cairn not shown on modern mapping. Boundary stone shown as 'B.S.'.

Newman, P., 2015, Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, 51 (Report - Survey). SDV359145.

Cairn south of Blackslade Ford
An amorphous pile of large boulders, much disturbed, might have been a cairn, though a large horse-shoe shape section is missing. A modern wall, following the course of a former reave, transects the feature and a boundary stone has been placed on the pile. Condition is stable but with much legacy damage. SX73701 75120

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6836 - Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape survey

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