Holne Moor Reported Cairn
Database entries
OS Map: SX 6799 7145
OS Source: HER
HER: MDV6446
Alternate name: Holne Moor
Short Name: CN?Holne Moo1
Grinsell: HOLNE 19
Exist: Maybe
Record: Unique
Record Source: Grinsell
Hut Class: No
Cairn Class: Maybe
Dimensions (m): 4.0 x 0.1
Lidar: SX 6799 7145
Guide Map: 40
Nearest Bus Stop: Dartmeet Badgers Holt (2.5 km) [Route: 172]
Nearby sites: SX 6799 7145
Notes
Grinsell: A possible cairn with a hollow centre found at SX 6798 7140. Diameter 4.0 metres, height 0.1 metre. HER quoting OS division (1980): It is uncertain what Grinsell (1978) is referring to. At SX 6798 7140 there is an earthen ring 1.2 metres wide and 0.1 metres high, enclosing an area 2.4 metres in diameter with a military 'foxhole' trench in the northern half and traces of an infilled one on the south (See ground photograph). These occupy virtually the whole of the interior.There is no visible stone and it is possible that the feature is the result of military activity. Crossing says that a half mile from Venford dam, a track to Combestone Farm branches right near a tumulus. The barrow or cairn was evidently obvious circa 1912 and its subsequent removal may be due to road mending. Thirty metres to the east there is a flat circular depression 5.0 metres in diameter and 0.1 metre deep which could be the site of a stripped cairn or hut but this is entirely speculative.
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.
- Crossing, William, Guide to Dartmoor, (2001)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)