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Ring cairn on Hameldown Tor
Grid ref: SX 7031 8056
On walking routes: Two Moors Way
Main image: Photo: jeff collins, Wikimedia Commons
Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1003194) describes a ring cairn on Hameldown Tor, with wide views in every direction, forming part of a separate group of mounds along a prominent ridge. A circular rubble bank 1.5 metres wide and up to 0.4 metres high surrounds an inside 21 metres across. In the middle is an 11 metre cairn up to 0.7 metres high, and several edge-set stones on its north side show that a kerb may survive elsewhere as a buried feature. It lies in the parish of Manaton, about 0.8 km south-east of Hookney Tor and 1.4 km north-east of Challacombe.
A pile of stones on top of the mound, 4.2 metres across and 1.2 metres high, is a modern visitor cairn. An Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar stands to the north of the cairn centre.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1003194 (updated 12 November 2015), which cites PastScape 445638.
- Period: Bronze Age
- Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1003194)
- Grid reference: SX 7031 8056 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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Plate from A Book of Dartmoor, page 10, 1900“A death-like stillness suddenly seemed to rest upon all around, a quiet which was not a calm, and which had something almost unearthly in it.”
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