Hurston Ridge Cairn
Dartmoor Exploration Committee Report 7. Remains of urn found on Hurston Ridge
Database entries
OS Map: SX 67006 81841
OS Source: HER
HER: MDV6609
Alternate name: Hurston Ridge
Short Name: CN:Hurston
Butler map: 25.10
Grinsell: LYDFORD 30
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): c.9.0 x 0.2
Lidar: SX 67006 81841
Guide Map: 27
Nearest Bus Stop: Warren House Inn (1.3 km) [Route: 171]
Nearby sites: SX 67006 81841
Notes
Hurston ridge; pillaged cairn (diam 8m) examined in 1900. Yielded large portion of broken urn (circumference 1.12m), resting mouth down on flat stone covering pit filled with wood charcoal. The urn was partly protected by a leaning stone kept in position by trigger stones. Highly ornamented. Dark, friable pottery containing little clay. No surrounding stone circle (worth).See also HER record MDV6542.
Cinerary urn from Cairn at Hurston, Chagford. The urn was reconstructed in 1962 and today can be seen at the Plymouth Museum.
Butler: "Hurston Ridge Cairn at SX67008182 of circa 9.0 metres diameter by 0.2 metres high. Cairn was lost soon after it was discovered in 1900. However the cairn is still to be found on the west side of Assycombe Hill and only a triangular slab lying flat on the south-east edge of a low mound. Until 1986 another slab lay in the shallow pit at the centre which was perhaps the stone which protected the urn but this has since been taken away."
References
These are selected references with an emphasis on out of copyright sources linked as PDFs. For more detailed references try any linked HER or PMD record above.
- Barber, J., Cineary urn from Hurston Ridge cairn, T.D.A. Vol.97 pp.100 - 101 (1965)
- Baring-Gould, Sabine, Seventh Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, T.D.A. Vol.33 pp.130-138 (1901)
- Brailsford, J. W, Bronze Age Stone Monuments of Dartmoor, Antiquity Volume 12, Number 48 pp.444-63 (1938)
- Burnard, Robert, Early Man, The Victoria History of the County of Devon: v. 1 (1906)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.2: The North, (1991)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 21, T.D.A. Vol.34 pp.104- 146 (1902)