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Summary

Cairn '2' (Butler) 200 metres south of the southern end of Stalldown stone alignment. A scrub-covered cairn situated on a south-west facing slope at 348.0m OD. It measures 8.0m in diameter with a height of 0.6m and is in fair condition (1977).

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1012748: Cairn south of Stalldown stone alignment

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66SW20
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442220
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SW/56
• Old SAM Ref: 10513

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1946 - 1949, Royal Air Force Aerial Photographs, 2494/3051 (Aerial Photograph). SDV342938.

Photograph taken on 11th March 1948.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX66SW20 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV176570.

(03/08/1977) At SX 63226185 is a scrub-covered cairn situated on a south-west facing slope at 348.0m OD. It measures 8.0m in diameter with a height of 0.6m and is in fair condition.
Revised 1:10 000 on MSD.

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

Site visited on 31st August 1975. Cairn slight hollow centre, covered with scrub. Diameter 8.2metres, height 0.6 metres.

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

Visible on aerial photograph and recorded.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 61-62, Map 54, Figure 54.21 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Cairn '2' at SX63216185 of 8.2 metres diameter by 0.6 metres high to the south of Stalldown stone row.

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 200 metres south of the Stall Down stone row’s southern terminal. The stony, turf-covered roughly circular mound has a maximum diameter of 8.6 metres and is approximately 0.7 metres high. No evidence of stone embellishment has survived.

Ordnance Survey, 2019, MasterMap 2019 (Cartographic). SDV362729.

'Cairn' shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2019, National Heritage List for England, 1012748 (National Heritage List for England). SDV362730.

Cairn 200 metres south of Stalldown stone alignment of 8 metres diameter by 1 metre high. Central hollow, probably a result of the grave having been opened. May be associated with terminus of alignment.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8082 - Survey of the Upper Erme Valley

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