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Summary

Ring cairn of 6.0 metres diameter with bank 1.8 metres wide by 0.6 metres high on Shovel Down

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68NE203
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1572337
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68NE/231
• Old SAM Ref: 28663
• Pastscape: 1572337

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• RING CAIRN? (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 144 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

(12/07/1976) SX66008550 Cairn on hillslope south of Long Stone. Measures 9.7 metres in diameter, possibly a ring cairn or robbed cairn. Not certainly found by Grinsell.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1978, SX68NE203? (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV255614.

(10/02/1978) SX65998548. On a south-east facing slope at circa 453m OD is a possible ring-cairn. It is 9.0m in diameter overall with a stone ring 1.3m thick and 0.3m high. It is in very poor condition and partially destroyed. Surveyed at 1:2500 on Antiquity Model.

Turner, J. R., 1990, Ring Cairns, Stone Circles and Related Monuments on Dartmoor, 67/ a24 (Article in Serial). SDV229817.

Ring cairn on the south-east hillslope of Shovel Down. Stone ring 6 metres internal diameter with bank 1.5 metres wide and 0.4 metres high.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 144085, 15/8/1997 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Ring cairn at SX66008550 forming part of ritual complex on Shovel Down. Diameter 6 metres, height 0.6 metres, width 1.8 metres.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 184, 243, Map 36 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Thornworthy Corner W cairn at SX65998550 of circa 6.0 metres diameter by 0.3 metres high. Remains of a cairn 20 metres to the west of Three Boys. Irregular mound thoroughly dug into with the upcast making a second mound on the north side.

GetMapping, 2010, GetMapping 2010 aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV351585.

A roughly circular feature is visible on the aerial photograph.

National Monument Record, 2018, Pastscape (Website). SDV360651.

SX65998548. On a south-east facing slope at circa 453 metres OD is a possible ring-cairn. It is 9.0 metres in diameter overall with a stone ring 1.3 metre thick and 0.3 metres high. It is in very poor condition and partially destroyed. Surveyed at 1:2500 (citing Attrill, N. J., 10/02/1978, Ordnance Survey Field Investigator's Comments).

Historic England, 2023, National Heritage List for England, 1017874 (National Heritage List for England). SDV365228.

Part of Scheduled area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project

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