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Summary

A probable cairn, has been massively disturbed and robbed. Its appearance is of an amorphous spread of small granite boulders, with a slightly raised central area. Condition is declining and bracken covered.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019603: Coaxial fields, prehistoric settlements and cairns on Halshanger and Horridge Commons, forming part of the Rippon Tor coaxial field system
• SHINE: Earthworks and stone walls of a Bronze Age parallel reave system on Mountsland, Halshanger and Horridge Commons, comprising the remains of a field system, hut circle settlements, enclosures and cairns, and surface remains of 19th century Hemsworthy Mine

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX77SE2
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 445199
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX77SE/38
• Old SAM Ref: 28774

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1960-1961, SX77SE2 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV306669.

(16/05/1960) At SX 7564 7494 there is a robbed cairn 24.0m. in diameter and up to 1.2m. high. Much of the north-west quadrant has been stripped to ground level. A 25" survey has been made. Cairn located and sureyed on field document.

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 142 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

(04/10/1975) Cairn with depressed central area caused by robbing, if not a ring cairn. Diameter 16 metres, height 1 metre.

National Monuments Record, 1979, NMR SF1459, 110 (Aerial Photograph). SDV291903.

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

Large barrow visible on the aerial photographs and recorded on map overlay.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 152332, 1/4/1999 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Cairn (SX75627495) 1130 metres south-east of Rippon Tor summit lying within a coaxial field system on Horridge Common. Diameter 26 metres, height 0.8 metres. Eight irregular heaps of medium sized stones lie in places upon the mound, whose edge is the most clearly defined element of the site. The surface of the mound is pitted with irregular shaped hollows.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume One - The East, 47; fig 6.2 (Monograph). SDV299725.

Newman, P., 2015, Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, figure 21 (Report - Survey). SDV359145.

Cairn on Horridge Common. A probable cairn, has been massively disturbed and robbed. Its appearance is of an amorphous spread of small granite boulders, with a slightly raised central area. Condition is declining and bracken covered. SX75640 74940

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms (Worksheet). SDV362781.

(April 2019 visit) Condition recorded as moderate; vegetation (grass/molinia) primary damage agent.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs (Photograph). SDV363073.

Image taken during April 2019 visit.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6836 - Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape survey

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