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Summary

A Bronze Age cairn in the form of a low heather covered mound 10.8m in diameter and up to 1.0m high composed of fist-sized stones and small boulders. A linear trench has been cut from the SW side of the mound into the centre to a maximum 1.2m deep. The spoil has been deposited either around the top of the trench or on the SW side. There is no evidence of a central cist although the bottom of the trench is covered by debris. A scheduled ancient monument.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1012293: Cairn south-west of Lower Hartor Tor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66NW14
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 441603
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66NW/7
• Old SAM County Ref: 507
• Old SAM Ref: 10680

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CAIRN (Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

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

'Tumulus' shown on 19th century map.

Worth, R. H., 1890, 12th Report of the Barrow Committee, 51 (Article in Serial). SDV346007.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX66NW12 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV162937.

(07/06/1950) Cairn. Large hollow in centre. Diameter 10m, height 1.5m. Lower Harter Tor. On the slope there is a cairn which has been broken into (citing Worth).

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 168 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

(18/09/1974) Cairn hollow towards centre, on south-west edge of enclosed hut group. Diameter 11.5 metres, height 1.0 metre.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1978, SX66NW12 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV162932.

(12/09/1978) A fine heather-covered cairn situated on a slight south slope at 360m OD. Measurements as given by the Ordnance Survey (1950).
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on PFD.

National Monuments Record, 1983, SF2134, 083 (Aerial Photograph). SDV231262.

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

Recorded on aerial photograph.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 132-3, 210, Map 49, Figure 49.16 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Lower Hartor Tor cairn at SX60176730 of 10.5 metres diameter by 1.0 metres high. Cairn built just outside the perimeter of the enclosed hut circle settlement to the south-west of Lower Hartor Tor. It has been broken into at the centre to reveal a careful construction of layered slabs set at an angle.

Newman, P., 1999, Eylesbarrow (Ailsborough) Tin Mine (Report - Survey). SDV352201.

(08/07/1999) SX60176730 A Bronze Age cairn in the form of a low heather covered mound 10.8m in diameter and up to 1.0m high composed of fist-sized stones and small boulders. A linear trench has been cut from the SW side of the mound into the centre to a maximum 1.2m deep. The spoil has been deposited either around the top of the trench or on the SW side. There is no evidence of a central cist although the bottom of the trench is covered by debris. A scheduled ancient monument.

English Heritage, 2005-2008, Prehistoric Survey Information (Cartographic). SDV345521.

Cairn shown on survey.

GeoInformation Group Ltd, 2010, 1:625 2010 Colour (12.5cm resolution) (Aerial Photograph). SDV346026.

Visible on aerial photograph.

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

'Cairn' shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1012293 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

Cairn to the south-west of Lower Hartor Tor lies on a south-facing slope above the River Plym and close to an enclosure with hut circles. It consists of a heather-covered mound 11 metres in diameter and over a metre in height, with a hollow in the centre.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV4966 - Survey of Drizzlecombe, Eylesbarrow, Ditsworthy and Hartor. The Eylesbarrow archaeological landscape
• EDV6239 - Eylesbarrow (Ailsborough) Tin Mine

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