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Summary

Cairn of 11 metres diameter by 0.25 metres high within cairn cemetery south-west of White Hill. Also recorded as a military feature

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1011433: Three round cairns 420m south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of White Hill round cairn cemetery
• SHINE: Linear Bronze Age cairn cemetery on the south-west slopes of White Hill

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX58SW/3/6
• Old SAM Ref: 20349
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CAIRN? (Constructed, Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1947, RAF/CPE/UK/2149, 4290 (Aerial Photograph). SDV282746.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950/1979, SX58SW4, Cairn F (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV268214.

(13/08/1979) Doubtful cairn on White Hill. This cairn, first published in 1965, is very doubtful. Mound 6m long, 3m wide and 0.3m high. Not recent but could be an infilled wartime trench.

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 159, Peter Tavy 3 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

(22/06/1974) Mutilated cairn. Diameter 9m, height 0.1m.

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

Recorded.

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

(1992) Round cairn 11m long by 4m wide by 0.25m high. A backfilled trench would not be so conspicuous. It remains possible that this is a damaged cairn.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 106-108, Map 32, Figure 32.6 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Possible cairn represented by a mound of 9 metres diameter by 1.2 metres high ith a pit in the cairn cemetery to the south-west of White Hill.

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

Cairn shown on survey.

GeoInformation Group Ltd, 2010, 1:625 2010 Colour aerial photography for Dartmoor (12.5cm resolution) (Aerial Photograph). SDV346026.

Visible on aerail photograph.

Rainbird, P., 2021, Land at Ilsington Church of England Primary School, Ilsington, Dartmoor, Devon. Results of Archaeological Monitoring and Recording, 1011433 (Report - Watching Brief). SDV365288.

Three round cairns south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of White Hill round cairn cemetery. This monument includes three closely spaced round cairns situated on a gentle west-facing slope overlooking Willsworthy Army Camp. The eastern mound has seen limited damage and measures 11 metres long by 4 metres wide and stands up to 0.25 metres high.

National Mapping Programme, post-1985, Dartmoor NMP Transcription data (Cartographic). SDV364293.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7368 - Survey of the Willsworthy Training Area, Peter Tavy (1998)
• EDV6663 - Survey of the Willsworthy Training Area
• EDV6664 - Survey of the Willsworthy Training Area
• EDV6665 - Survey of the Willsworthy Training Area
• EDV8141 - Condition survey of the Willsworthy Training Area

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