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Round cairn and later tin prospecting pits 615m ESE of Down Tor is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. The site comprises a round cairn, a funerary structure built from stones heaped over a burial or cremation, which represents the primary archaeological feature of prehistoric date. The cairn has subsequently been affected by tin prospecting activity, evidenced by pits dug into and around the monument during the medieval or later period when tin extraction became economically important on Dartmoor. The survival of both the original burial cairn and the traces of subsequent exploitation make this a palimpsestic landscape feature recording multiple phases of human activity and land use across several millennia.
Round cairn and later tin prospecting pits 615m ESE of Down Tor is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009089. View the official record →
Round cairn and later tin prospecting pits 615m ESE of Down Tor is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009089.
Round cairn and later tin prospecting pits 615m ESE of Down Tor is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1009089.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Hut circle 1000yds (915m) E of Coleland Bridge (8.8 km), Prehistoric barrow cemetery on Crownhill Down, 900m north of Drakelands Farm (9.5 km), Barrow cemetery on western slope of Crownhill Down (9.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round cairn and later tin prospecting pits 615m ESE of Down Tor's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Round cairn and later tin prospecting pits 615m ESE of Down Tor stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.