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Summary

Vis=10/9/1979 (os) a circular bank of small stones 4.8m diameter, 1.5m wide and 0.2m high with a 4.0m break in the nw. Situated on high ground in an area which appears to have been cleared at some time and put to pasture. The position seems too exposed for a hut yet there is virtually no stone in the central space. Possibly a robbed cairn. A second cropmark 20.0m to the sw is a depression caused by military activity (os).

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1016634: Cairnfield, irregular aggregate field system, a ring cairn and three round cairns 800m and 920m south of Moorgate Farm

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX59SE/102
• Old SAM Ref Revised: 28717
• Old SAM Ref: 28703(PART)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Untitled Source (Aerial Photograph). SDV276897.

Aph=f4258/raf/8609 69/(26/2/1968).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV276898.

Fleming, a. /pps/49(1983)236/the prehistoric landscape of dartmoor part 2. At circa sx597921 a cemetery incorporating a 6.5m diam cairn, with 2 small cairns on its s side and a 2.2m diam cairn to its n; a further 10m diam cairn lies further e on the n flank of harter hill (sx601919) (fleming).

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1979, SX59SE22 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV276896.

Osa=sx59se22. Vis=10/9/1979 (os) a circular bank of small stones 4.8m diameter, 1.5m wide and 0.2m high with a 4.0m break in the nw. Situated on high ground in an area which appears to have been cleared at some time and put to pasture. The position seems too exposed for a hut yet there is virtually no stone in the central space. Possibly a robbed cairn. A second cropmark 20.0m to the sw is a depression caused by military activity (os).

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., Des=mpp/149056. Des=mpp/149165. (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Vis=22/6/1998 (gerrard, s. ) cairnfield 800m s of moorgate farm. At sx59709225 (mpp).

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8679 - Okehampton Range: Management Survey
• EDV8291 - Okehampton Range: Monument Baseline Condition Survey
• EDV8695 - Survey of Okehampton North Dartmoor Military Range

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