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Summary

Cairn '9' (Butler) to the west of Black Pool to the north-west of Western Beacon. Stony mound, 12 metres by 17 metres by 0.8 metres high with a large hollow with a stony rim on east side of 4.6 metres by 3 metres and 0.5 metres deep

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1012241: One of a number of cairns at Black Pool

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX65NE32
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 441191
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX65NE/215
• Old SAM Ref: 10606

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.

'Tumuli' shown on 19th century map.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX65NE32 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV166635.

(24/03/1950) A cairn 16 metres east-west and 12 metres north-south, height 0.9 metres. It appears to have been round in its original state, but has been excavated or pillaged, the spoil from the centre being dumped at the west end.

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

(May 1976) Between Western Beacon and Butterdon Hill about 105m west of Black Pool. On flat, grassy ground that has been almost completely cleared of stones. A grass covered mound of stones, with hollow centre. Oval shape with longer diameter. Diameter east-west 16.50m, north-south 12.2m. Height 0.6m. Altitude 310m.

National Monument Record, 1976, SX6558, 233-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDV166651.

Photograph taken on 20th May 1977.

Hankin, C. F., 1977-1980, Harford Parish Checklist (Worksheet). SDV149931.

Between Western Beacon and Butterdon Hill about 105 metres west of Black Pool. On flat, grassy ground that has been almost completely cleared of stones. A grass covered mound of stones, with hollow centre. Oval shape with longer diameter. Diameter east to west 16.50 metres, north to south 12.2 metres. Height 0.6 metres. Altitude 310 metres OD..

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 141, No. 21 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

(23/06/1973) A cairn, at present oval in shape, it situated at SX 65385811, west of Black Pool. It measures 17 metres diameter east-west and 13 metres north-south, by 0.8 metres high.

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

Medium sized cairn visible on aerial photograph.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 34-6, 244, Map 53, Figure 53.13 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Western Beacon cairn '9' at SX65365811 of 18 metres by 14 metres by 1 metre high has been distorted by the excavation within.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 2015-2017, 2015-2017 Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV361462.

Visible on aerial photograph.

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

One of fifty round cairns recorded during survey.

Ordnance Survey, 2021, MasterMap 2021 (Cartographic). SDV364015.

Oval 'Cairn' shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1012241 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

This is one of four cairns at the waterhole of Black Pool, in the valley between Butterdon Hill and Western Beacon. This large cairn lies west of Black Pool. It is oval in shape, 16 metres long by 12 metres cross and 0.6 metres high and is constructed of stone and earth, now largely turf covered, with a hollow in the centre suggesting that it may have been disturbed in the past.

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

Visited on 13th January 2021, surveyed and photographed. Cairn west of Black Pool: gorse & turf-covered stony mound, 12 metres north-west to south-east, 17 metres north-east to south-west, 0.8 metres high, large hollow with stony rim on east side, 4.6 metres by 3 metres, 0.5 metres deep. Three smaller hollows and stone heaps on west side suggest unrecorded excavation or stone extraction.

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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