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Summary

Large cairn consisting of an earth and stone base surmounted by a mound of stones. It measures 28 metres in diameter and 1.7 metres high with a flat top and a hollow in the centre, suggesting it has been disturbed in the past. Another, smaller cairn lies to the south-east.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1012249: Two cairns on the south side of Ugborough Beacon

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX65NE6
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 441117
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX65NE/191
• Old SAM Ref: 10542

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.

Northern of two 'Tumuli' shown on 19th century map.

Worth, R. H., 1943, 62nd report on barrows, 54 (Article in Serial). SDV165840.

There are two cairns on the summit of Eastern Beacon.

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

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX65NE6 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV165718.

(28/03/1950) Cairn on Ugborough Beacon. Large flat-topped grass-covered cairn with shallow depression in centre. Situated 30 metres from SX65NE/192 (MDV3106). Measures 27.5 metres diameter (edge to edge), 1.2 metres high.

National Monuments Record, 1977, SX6658, 1/368-371 (Aerial Photograph). SDV160614.

National Monuments Record, 1977, SX6658, 1/371 (Aerial Photograph). SDV160614.

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

(24/6/1973) Truncated cairn. Diameter 28 metres, height 1.2 metres.

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

Large cairn is visible on 1977 and 1946 aerial photographs.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 37, 245, Map 53 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Ugborough Beacon cairn '3' at SX66705878 of 26.0 metres diameter by 1.5 metres high. Large cairn to the south of Ugborough Beacon is not badly damaged. Probably originally flat topped but the upcast from the central pit has added an outer rim to its surface.

Ordnance Survey, 2018, MasterMap 2018 (Cartographic). SDV360652.

Depicted on the modern mapping.

Historic England, 2018, National Heritage List for England, 1012249 (National Heritage List for England). SDV360653.

These two very large cairns on the brow of Ugborough Beacon each consist of an earth and stone base surmounted by a mound of stones. The more westerly cairn is 28 metres in diameter and 1.7 metres high with a flat top and a hollow in the centre, suggesting it has been disturbed in the past.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs, UG11 (Photograph). SDV363073.

(21/12/2018) Site photographed during condition survey visit.

Riley, H., 2021, Archaeological Survey: Ugborough Premier Archaeological Landscape, Harford and Ugborough, 12, 7.1.7 (Report - Survey). SDV364697.

Fifty round cairns were recorded in the survey area.

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

Visited on 22nd January 2021, surveyed and photographed. Large embanked platform cairn south-east of Eastern Beacon: stony flat-topped mound 25 metres diameter, 0.9 metres high, outer bank is 1.4 metres wide, 0.4 metres high, large hollow 3.4 metres north to south, 2.2 metres east to west, 0.8 metres deep with spoil mounds in centre 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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