This site is entirely user-supported. See how you can help.
We don't have any photos of this monument yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?
If Google Street View is available, the image is from the best available vantage point looking, if possible, towards the location of the monument. Where it is not available, the satellite view is shown instead.
Latitude: 50.4181 / 50°25'5"N
Longitude: -4.0107 / 4°0'38"W
OS Eastings: 257247.699389
OS Northings: 59512.935159
OS Grid: SX572595
Mapcode National: GBR Q3.41L7
Mapcode Global: FRA 27HY.79R
Entry Name: Round barrow 950yds (868m) N of Drakeland Corner
Scheduled Date: 25 October 1971
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1002597
English Heritage Legacy ID: DV 761
County: Devon
Civil Parish: Sparkwell
Traditional County: Devon
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon
A round cairn 590m north of Drakeland Corner.
Source: Historic England
This record was the subject of a minor enhancement on 11 November 2015. The record has been generated from an "old county number" (OCN) scheduling record. These are monuments that were not reviewed under the Monuments Protection Programme and are some of our oldest designation records.
The monument includes a round cairn situated on the southern summit of the prominent ridge called Crownhill Down. The round cairn survives as a circular stony mound measuring up to 15m in diameter and 1.4m high. In the centre is a large hollow indicating early partial excavation or robbing. This cairn is known locally as ‘Hawkesborough’ and was mentioned in a lease dated 16th November 1562 as tin bound for a nearby tinworks. It is probably an outlying cairn associated with the nearby round cairn cemetery on Crownhill Down which is the subject of a separate scheduling.
Source: Historic England
Round cairns are prehistoric funerary monuments dating to the Bronze Age (c.2000-700 BC). They were constructed as stone mounds covering single or multiple burials. These burials may be placed within the mound in stone-lined compartments called cists. In some cases the cairn was surrounded by a ditch. Often occupying prominent locations, cairns are a major visual element in the modern landscape. They are a relatively common feature of the uplands and are the stone equivalent of the earthen round barrows of the lowlands. Their considerable variation in form and longevity as a monument type provide important information on the diversity of beliefs and social organisation amongst early prehistoric communities. They are particularly representative of their period.
Despite early partial excavation the round cairn 590m north of Drakeland Corner survives comparatively well and is associated with a nearby large round cairn cemetery. It occupies a prominent location on a ridge and will contain archaeological and environmental evidence relating to its construction, funerary and ritual practices, longevity, social organisation, territorial significance and overall landscape context.
Source: Historic England
Other
PastScape Monument No:-438396
Source: Historic England
Other nearby scheduled monuments