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Summary

Round platform cairn, 16.5 m diameter and 11m high, and has been badly mutilated by the erection of a modern marker cairn, 1.5 m high and 3m diameter with a shelter upon it. This site is on the local list of Nationally Important Dartmoor sites.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Earthworks of a line of four Bronze Age cairns north-west of Snowdon Hole

Other References/Statuses

• Dartmoor Non-designated Heritage Asset: Y
• National Monuments Record: SX66NE11
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 441381
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66NE/40

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

National Monuments Record, NMR SX6668, 1 (Aerial Photograph). SDV150364.

Breton, H. H., 1931, The Forest of Dartmoor, 20 (Monograph). SDV146074.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950/1977, SX66NE11 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV146073.

(20/04/1950) Cairn in good condition.
(13/07/1977) One of two cairns lying on the broad, level summit of Snowdon at 495 metres above OD.
Cairn 'A' This round platform cairn, 16.5 metres diameter and 1.1 metres high, has been badly mutilated by the erection of a modern marker cairn, 1.5 metres high and 3 metres diameter with a shelter upon it.
Section at 1:200 on 495. Surveyed at 1:10 000 on PFD.

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 176 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

Cairn, crowned by modern stone heap, measuring 17.0 meters in diameter, height 1.3 meters. Visited 17/9/1974

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

Recorded during the Aerial Photograph Project.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 171, Map 58 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Snowdon '2' cairn at SX 66866827 of 18 metres diameter by 1.2 metres high. This cairn has a deep central pit and is slightly smaller than its southern neighbour. It is crowned with a modern stone heap.

Gerrard, S., 2004, List of Sites Remaining to be Considered for Designation on Dartmoor (Un-published). SDV345444.

This site was considered for designation as a Scheduled Ancient Monument during the Monument Protection Programme. The programme ended before the entire list of sites was successfully scheduled so this is included on a local list of Nationally Important Sites.

Ordnance Survey, 2010, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV344030.

'Cairn' shown on modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8290 - Survey of tinworks along the River Mardle

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