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Summary

Cairn at north end of Cantrell double stone row of 9.6 metres by 7.6 metres and 0.6 metres high with a hollow centre

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1017604: Stone alignment and cairn south-east of Western Beacon

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX65NE44
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 441214
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX65NE/7/1
• Old SAM County Ref: 832
• Old SAM Ref: 10550

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Worth, R. H., 1946, The Stone Rows of Dartmoor. Part 1, 315, Number 62 (Article in Serial). SDV251172.

Cairn at north-east end of row.

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 172, No. 24 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

(22/06/1973) SX 65715718. Cairn 7 metres in diameter by 0.1 metres high, with possible end slab of cist in centre hollow, giving orientation south south east/north north west.
A double stone row proceeds slightly downhill to the south-west.

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

Not visible on aerial photographs.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 33-4, 244, Map 53, Figure 53.12 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Cairn at the north end of 'Cantrell stone row' at SX65705717 of 8.0 metres diameter with a single slab on the edge of the central hollow which may indicate one end of a cist.

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 most with later modifications.

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

'Cairn' shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1017604 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

The cairn at the north end of the row is 7.0 metres in diameter and 0.3 metres high, with a hollow in the centre suggesting that it has been robbed in the past.

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

Visited on 24th April 2021, surveyed and photographed. Cairn at north-east end of stone row south-east of Western Beacon: turf-covered mound, 9.6 metres north-west to south-east, 7.6 metres north-east to south-west, 0.6 metres high, upright stone and extraction pits on mound.

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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