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Summary

Cairn to the north of Gutter Tor on the south side of the road to the south-east of Nattor Farm which reportably once contained a cist

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1012283: Cairn south-east of Nattor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX56NE36
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 438604
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/9
• Old SAM County Ref: 575
• Old SAM Ref: 10582

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CIST? (Constructed, Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC (Between))
• CAIRN (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

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

'Hut Circle' shown on 19th century map.

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

'Hut Circle' shown on early 20th century map.

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/106G/UK, 1190 (Aerial Photograph). SDV71055.

Photograph taken on 2nd February 1946.

Royal Air Force, 1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2494, 4131 (Aerial Photograph). SDV147533.

Photograph taken in March 1948.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950/1977, SX56NE36 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV260518.

A barrow, almost destroyed in 1925 by roadmen (citing Worth, R. H., 10/12/1948).
(30/05/1950) Remains of large cairn, approx 19.5m diameter. Badly mutilated.
(28/05/1977) Not a hut circle but a cairn situated on a north-facing spur below Gutter Tor at about 295m OD. Constructed of small stones and much mutilated. Its diameter is 19.5m and height now
approximately 1.0m.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on PFD.

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 166 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

Visited on 29th July 1972. Mutilated cairn just south of the road. Diameter 20.0 metres, height 1.0 metres.

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

Recorded.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 118, Map 49 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Gutter Tor cairn '4' at SX57386717 of 23 metres diameter by 1.0 metres high lies by the roadside south of Nattor Farm.

Newman, P. + Probert, S., 2005, Ringmoor Training Area: Monument Baseline Condition Survey (Report - Survey). SDV363484.

(16/02/2005) The dimensions of this now amorphous feature are as described by the Ordnance Survey (1977). Grass covered and in a stable condition.

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

Visible on aerial photograph.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, UPRM-21 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

(29/01/2020) Condition assessed as very good, although two clumps of gorse and some reed cover noted in the centre of the cairn and north-east corner.

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

Cairn photographed during January 2020 visit.

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

'Cairn' shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1012283 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

This cairn lies immediately to the south of the road, south-west of Nattor Farm. It is 20 metres in diameter and 1.0 metres in height, it consists of a mound built of small stones and earth and is reported to have contained a cist, though this is not visible. It lies approximately 75 metres north-west of Eylesbarrow Reave and within 500 metres of several other cairns and enclosures. The mound has been damaged, probably during the enclosure of farm land immediately to the north of the road.
Previously identified wrongly as a hut circle. Almost destroyed by road works in 1925.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7443 - Condition survey of archaeological sites in Ringmoor Training Area
• EDV7569 - Condition survey of Ringmoor Down training area
• EDV8227 - Ringmoor Training Area: Monument Baseline Condition Survey

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