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Summary

Cairn '4' (Butler) to the east of the stone row on Stalldown

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1015806: Stone alignment and cairns on Stalldown

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66SW16
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442208
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SW/52
• Old SAM County Ref: 461
• Old SAM Ref: 10509

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.

Worth, R. H., 1946, The Stone Rows of Dartmoor. Part 1, 289 (Article in Serial). SDV251172.

Two cairns lie abreast of the Stalldown Stone Row (SX 66 SW 17), one with its centre 135 feet away from the row to the east, and the other with its centre 92 feet to the west.

National Monuments Record, 1976, NMR SX6362 (Aerial Photograph). SDV165685.

Photograph taken on 22nd April 1976.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX66SW16 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV258955.

(05/08/1977) Two cairns on either side of a stone row (SX 66 SW 17) on the flat top of Stalldown at approximately 404m OD.
A grass-covered flat-topped cairn at SX 63286245 measures 12.0m in diameter and 0.9m high, and the centre has been excavated.
Settings of Stones in and around the structure suggests a complex cairn circle (see 1:10 000 Survey on SX 66 SW 17)
Surveyed 1:10 000 on MSD/AM.

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 137, Cornwood 20 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

Site visited on 31st August 1975. Cairn on the slope with four stones of retaining circle remaining. Diameter 10.9 metres, height 0.6metres.

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

Cairn visible and recorded.

Turner, J. R., 1990, Ring Cairns, Stone Circles and Related Monuments on Dartmoor, 83 (Article in Serial). SDV229817.

Indication of a stone ring/ring cairn beneath cairn.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 60-61, Map 54, Figure 54.20 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Cairn '4' at SX63276245 to the east of Stalldown stone row is 11.5 metres by 0.4 metres high wth no stones visible around it. It had been dug into at the centre.

Newman, P., 2018, Erme Valley Survey data (GIS and Excel spreadsheet) (Cartographic). SDV361913.

Newman, P., 2018, The Upper Erme Valley, Dartmoor National Park, Devon: An Archaeological Survey, Appendix 1 (Report - Survey). SDV362921.

A round cairn on Stall Down, 43 metres east of the Stone Row. The stony, turf-covered roughly circular mound has a maximum diameter of 11 metres and is approximately 0.5 metres high. No evidence of stone embellishment has survived.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8082 - Survey of the Upper Erme Valley

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