Round Hill E.2 Reported Cairn
Database entries
OS Map: SX 6161 7441
OS Source: HER
HER: MDV18229
Alternate name: Round Hill E.2
Short Name: CN:RoundHillE2
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: HER
Hut Class: No
Cairn Class: Maybe
Dimensions (m): 8.7 x 0.2
Lidar: SX 6161 7441
Guide Map: 34
Nearest Bus Stop: Two Bridges Hotel (1.2 km) [Route: 98,171,172]
Nearby sites: SX 6161 7441
Notes
HER quoting Quinnell: The earthwork noted by Greeves (1982) is at SX 61607440 on a triangular patch of moorland, effectively isolated by a silted stream course on the W and S and tinworkings to the E, with the West Dart to the N.The feature consists of a circular turf-covered platform, 8.7m in diameter and 0.2m high, with a very slight E slope. Apart from the E quadrant it is enclosed by a bank 1.4m wide, 0.4m high externally and 0.2m high on the inner face. Probing suggests that the bank is wholly of turf. Outside is a ditch, 2m wide and 0.1m deep. Both bank and ditch are clear around the western half but fade to the E, where the extremity has been cut away by a tinner's trench.
Outside the earthwork a peaty soil overlies growan with very little stone. Constructionally it is unlike the round houses of the local open settlements, and Greeves may be correct with his suggestion that it could be a ring cairn. Its low lying situation, 1m higher than the bank of the West Dart, can be parallel by the cists alongside Blackbrook River (SX 67 SW 18).
See also duplicate entry for possible round house. Roundhill Round House