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Summary

Butterdon Hill cairn '10' (Butler) on the south-west slope of Butterdon Hill, consists of a mound of stones of 17 metres diameter by 1 metre high and is one of a series of similar large cairns along the ridge between Butterdon Hill and Weatherdon Hill.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1013060: One of a group of four cairns on Butterdon Hill

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX65NE30
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 441185
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX65NE/12
• Old SAM County Ref: 301D
• Old SAM Ref: 10600

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

'Tumulus' shown on 19th century map.

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1890, 1140-1 (Aerial Photograph). SDV169268.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX65NE30 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV150043.

(24/03/1950) Cairn on Butterdon Hill. Situated 155 metres south-east of the Ordnance Survey triangulation mark on the summit. Not quite circular, in fair condition although centre stones are not covered by undergrowth and appear to have been disturbed. Diameter 16.5 metres north-south by 15.0 metres east-west, height 1.0 metre.

Gaskell-Brown, C. + Hankin, C., 1975, Archaeological Check-List of Ugborough Parish, 315 (Article in Serial). SDV160589.

SX 656585. Cairn on Butterdon Hill (DCRA Reg SX 65 NE/12).

National Monument Record, 1976, SX6558, 2/240-244 (Aerial Photograph). SDV166651.

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 172, Ugborough 21 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

(23/06/1973) SX 6562 5852 Cairn, diameter 16 metres, height 0.9 metres.

Robinson, R., 1984, List of Field Monument Warden Visits 1984 (Un-published). SDV343082.

Visited 12/06/1984.

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

Small cairn is visible on National Monuments Record 1976 and Royal Air Force 1946 aerial photographs.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 24,27, 243, Map 53, Figure 53.7 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Butterdon Hill S.E. cairn '10' at SX65625852 to the south-east of the summit is 17 metres diameter by 1 metre high.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, UG22 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

(05/09/2019) Condition assessed as very good; currently no damage agents affecting feature.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs (Photograph). SDV363073.

Images taken during September 2019 visit.

Historic England, 2019, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV362730.

This cairn, on the south-west slope of Butterdon Hill, consists of a mound of stones built upon a stone, earth and turf base, possibly with a berm and ditch. It is 15 metres in diameter and approximately 1.8 metres high and is one of a series of similar large cairns along the ridge between Butterdon Hill and Weatherdon Hill.

Ordnance Survey, 2020, MasterMap 2020 (Cartographic). SDV363413.

'Cairn' shown on modern mapping.

Riley, H., 2021, Archaeological Survey: Ugborough Premier Archaeological Landscape, Harford and Ugborough, 12 (Report - Survey). SDV364697.

One of fifty round cairns recorded.

Riley, H., 2021, UG21 heritage asset database and gazetteer of sites (Report - Survey). SDV364699.

Site visited on 17th January 2021, surveyed and photographed. Platform cairn on south-east side of Butterdon Hill: low stony mound 17 metres diameter, 1 metre high, two hollows in mound suggesting stone extraction or excavation.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8770 - Archaeological Survey: Ugborough Premier Archaeological Lanscape , Harford amd Ugborough

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