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Summary

'Cairn 6' (Butler) is one of a group of four cairns on Butterdon Hill. Badly damaged, especially around the perimeter. Cairn consists of a stony mound of 25 metres diameter by 3 metres high. Outer rim of the cairn is a turf covered scarp of 4 metres wide by 0.5 metres high.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1017394: One of a group of four cairns on Butterdon Hill

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX65NE27
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 441176
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX65NE/24
• Old SAM County Ref: 301B
• Old SAM Ref: 10601

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

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

'Mound of Stones' shown on 19th century map with a triangulation marker in the middle.

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map (Cartographic). SDV325644.

'Mound of Stones' and 'Tumulus' marked on the early 20th century (1906) 6 inch historic map.

Crossing, W., 1912 (1965), Crossing's Guide to Dartmoor, 394 (Monograph). SDV320981.

Worth, R. H., 1937, 56th Report of the Barrow Committee, 100 (Article in Serial). SDV20973.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX65NE27, SX65NE27 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV176956.

(24/03/1950) SX 6553 5866 A large cairn on Butterdon Hill approximate dimensions are: 24m in diameter, height 2m. Depicted on the Ordnance Survey mapping. Badly mutilated, especially around the perimeter.

Worth, R. H., 1967, Worth's Dartmoor, 190 (Monograph). SDV337618.

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

SX 655586. Cairn on Butterdon Hill (DCRA Reg SX 65 NE/11/2).

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

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 141, No. 18 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

(23/06/1973) SX 65535866 Mutilated cairn. Diameter 25 metres, height 2.5 metres.

Hemery, E., 1983, High Dartmoor, 254 (Monograph). SDV249702.

Triple crown of Bronze Age cairns on Butterdon Hill (see also SX 65 NE 26, 28) obviously important burial sites. On the south side of the summit cairn are traces of two medieval enclosures, and against the wall of one of them a large stone has been vertically set.

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

Large cairn is visible on the National Monuments Record 1976 aerial photograph.

Ancient Monuments, 1990, Schedule notes (Schedule Document). SDV176955.

Cairn consisting of a mound of stone, earth and turf base, possibly with a berm and ditch. Diameter 25m, height approximately 2.5m.

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

Butterdon Hill Summit cairn '6' at SX65535866 of 25.0 metres diameter by 3.5 metres high on the highest point of Butterdon Hill. It is not well preserved as the foundations and tumbled walls of a rectangular building and small enclosure at its base have been constructed out of the cairn's material.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, UG24 (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.

Image taken during September 2019 visit.

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, 7.1.7 (Report - Survey). SDV364697.

One of fifty cairns recorded during the survey.

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

Visited on . Surveyed and photographed. Large cairn on the summit of Butterdon Hill: stony mound 25 metres diameter, 3 metres high. Outer rim of the cairn is a turf covered scarp, 4 metres wide, 0.5 metres high. A well trodden path along Butterdon Hill runs on the east side of cairn

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

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

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