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Summary

A large, round, flat topped cairn measuring 26 metres in diameter and 3.5 metres high. It is surmounted by a modern, drum-shaped, marker cairn of 4.5 metres diameter and 2 metres high.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1002660: Eastern White Barrow

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66NE31
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 441441
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66NE/14
• Old SAM County Ref: 1009

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Crossing, W., 1912 (1965), Crossing's Guide to Dartmoor, 370 (Monograph). SDV320981.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950/1977, SX66NE31 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV151727.

(02/05/1950). A large flat topped cairn, in good condition.
(07/07/1977) SX 66536516 Eastern White Barrow (name confirmed) is a is a large, round, flat topped cairn, 26m diameter and 3.5m high. It is on a prominent summit, at the east end of a broad ridge at 472m above OD. It is surmounted by a modern, drum shaped, marker cairn, 4.5m diameter and 2m high. The original profile of the cairn is uncertain.
See photograph.

Gill, C. (ed.), 1970, Dartmoor: a New Study, 279 (Monograph). SDV161800.

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

Site visited on 13th August 1976. Cairn, flat topped with modern stone built enclosure 2 metres high added, making a total height circa 5 metres. Diameter 28 metres, height 3 metres.

Robinson, R., 1978, South Brent Parish Checklist (Un-published). SDV137445.

Site visited on 5th May 1977. This is a large cairn composed of granite boulders with no signs of a central depression and no grassing over. The top has been rebuilt in a cylindrical shape about 2 metres in diameter within the last few years. Apart from some surface mine workings nearby there are no traces of surrounding banks or ditches.

Robinson, R., 1984, List of Field Monument Warden Visits 1984 (Un-published). SDV343082.

Site visited on 19th March 1984.

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

Visible on RAF aerial photograph.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 159, Map 57 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Eastern White Barrow at SX66546516 set on the top of the ridge has been made more prominent by the addition of a little tower adding 2 metres to the height of 4 metres. The cairn appears to have been previously repaired and its top levelled

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

'Eastern White Barrow' shown on modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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