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Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1003290) describes two round cairns north of Corndon Tor, on the summit of a slightly lower ridge that forms part of Corndon Down, also within the Dartmeet coaxial field system. The scheduling falls in two areas. It lies in the parish of Widecombe in the Moor, about 1.1 km north-east of Yar Tor and 1.7 km north-west of Ponsworthy.
The eastern cairn is a circular stony mound 21 metres across and 2.5 metres high, right beside a reave. The western is a circular stony mound up to 25 metres across and 2 metres high, right beside a cross reave. Its centre has a hollow from early partial digging in the 1820s, when a group of about fifty holiday-makers and local people opened several cairns nearby and found 'a pot or two'. Other remains nearby, some scheduled and some not, are outside this scheduling.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1003290 (updated 5 November 2015), which cites Butler, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities (1991).
- Period: Bronze Age
- Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1003290)
- Grid reference: SX 6862 7473 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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