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Summary

Cairn with a cist between Deadmans Bottom and Langcombe Brook of 5.0 metres diameter by 0.2 metres high with a small 1 metre square cist

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1012289: Cairn with a cist, the eastern one of two between Langcombe Brook and Deadman's Bottom

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66NW32
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 441650
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66NW/38
• Old SAM County Ref: 504A
• Old SAM Ref: 10675

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Worth, R. H., 1934, 53rd Report of the Barrow Committee, 40 (Article in Serial). SDV345863.

Kistvaen, Deadman's Bottom. The internal dimensions are rather uncertain since the south east end stone leans inward at 50 deg with the horizontal, and the north east side stone leans inward at an angle of 53 deg. The stones barely show above the ground. The cover stone is missing.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950/1978, SX66NW32, Plan & photograph (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV152063.

(16/05/1950) Worth's description accurate. The whole being contained in a small cairn, 5 metres in diameter, and 0.2 metres in height.
(13/09/1978) This cist measures 0.7m. long by 0.5m. wide, and 0.3m. deep, and is as planned by Worth. It is centrally placed within a low turf-covered cairn 5.0m. in diameter and 0.3m. in height, situated on a west slope at about 410m. OD.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on PFD

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 163 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

Visited on 19th September 1975. Cairn enclosing cist placed south-east to north-west. Diameter 3.5 metres and height 0.2 metres.

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

Not visible on RAF 1946/7 aerial photographs.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 150-3, Map 50 Figure 50.2 & 50.2.1 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Langcombe Brook '9' cairn at SX60996669 of 5.0 metres diameter by 0.3 metres high with a cist. The cairn must once have been a substantial bowl shape judging by the spread of the displaced mound but the cist is exceptionally small of 0.6 metres by 0.4 metres with all four stones tilting inwards.

Probert, S. A. J. + Fletcher, M. J., 2002, Plym Valley survey (Report - Survey). SDV350782.

(28/02/2002) SX60986671 A well defined cairn 6.0m in diameter and 0.4m high with a cist in the top. This stone-lined cist measures 0.7m by 0.5m internally and 0.3 deep. Two of the side stones have fallen inwards.

Cartographic Engineering, 2006, Dartmoor 2006 1:1250 Aerial Photography (digital) (Aerial Photograph). SDV345590.

Visible on aerial photograph.

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

'Cairn' with a cist shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1012289 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

This cairn with a cist is the eastern one of two which lie on a west-facing slope between Langcombe Brook and Deadman's Bottom. It consists of a mound 5 metres in diameter and 0.2 metres in height with a square cist. The cist measures 1 metre square and retains all its end and side slabs. A slab which may have been its coverstone lies in the cist.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8148 - The Upper Plym Valley: The Management of an Historic Landscape

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