Guide to the Monuments on Holne Chase

Table of Ritual and Burial Monuments on Holne Chase

Table of Round Houses on Holne Chase

Holne Chase Guide Map

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List of Ritual and Burial Monuments on Holne Chase

Buckland Ridge (S) Stone Ring Cairn Circle

OS Map: SX 73570 73240
NMR: No record found
HER record: MDV30630
Megalithic Portal: 45827
Alternate name: Buckland Common 5 Stone Ring Cairn Circle
ShortName: RC:BucklandRid
Butler map: 10.9
Turner: A13
Notes: Linear arrangement of mounds incorporated into boundary. Could be prehistoric cairns. Turner A13. No NMR record. "Robbed cairn. Stone ring is 13m inside diameter bank 1.80m wide and 50cms high, much of the bank on the eastern side has been destroyed. The central area has been disturbed, modern stone wall running north to south through the eastern section of the stone ring."
Nearby sites: SX73577324

Buckland Beacon Cairn

OS Map: SX 73510 73118
NMR record: SX 77 SW 8
HER record: MDV7977
ShortName: CN Buckland 1
Butler map: 10.
Grinsell: B:BITM 1
Nearby sites: SX73517312

Brake Corner 1 Cairn

OS Map: SX 70220 71700
NMR record: SX 77 SW 23
HER record: MDV8030
ShortName: CN?Brake Cor1
Butler map: 11.1.1
Turner: A17
Notes: Hut circle at brake corner. Bronze age. Vis=19/5/1960 (os) a circular enclosure bounded by a bank consisting of small stones. Part of the interior has been filled in with cleared field stones. No trace of entrance. No orthostats visible and construction using small stones is unusual for a hut. The exposed situation on crest of spur is more appropriate to a cairn but the walling at best about 0.4m high appears too regular for a cairn rim.
Nearby sites: SX70227170

Brake Corner 2 Reported Cairn

OS Map: SX 70180 71680
NMR: No record found
HER: No record found
ShortName: CN?Brake Cor2
Butler map: 11.1.2
Notes: Possible hut circle.
Nearby sites: SX70187168

Sherberton Common Stone Row Reported Cist

OS Map: SX 69100 73200
NMR record: SX 67 SE 82
HER record: MDV6426
PMD: Sherberton Common Stone Row
ShortName: CT?Sherberto3
Butler map: 11.6
Grinsell: WID 22
Notes: NGR taken from NMR. Grinsell gives location SX 691739. Destroyed by 1897
Nearby sites: SX69107320

Bench Tor S. Reported Cairn

OS Map: SX 69160 71400
NMR: No record found
HER record: MDV-1
ShortName: CN?Bench Tor1
Butler map: 59.2
Notes: Butler: in the field system "a small mound near the north end was probably a cairn".
Nearby sites: SX69167140

Sherberton Common Stone Row

OS Map: SX 69148 73346
NMR record: SX 67 SE 82
HER record: MDV6426
The Stone Rows of GB: Sherberton Common
PMD: Sherberton Common
ShortName: SR:Sherberto2
Butler map: 11.6
Butler Vol 5: p.214
Nearby sites: SX69157335

Holne Chase Castle Fort Fort

OS Map: SX 72440 71912
NMR record: SX 77 SW 14
HER record: MDV7996
Alternate name: Holne Chase Castle Fort
ShortName: FT:HolneChase
Notes: "A slight univallate hillfort situated on the north facing side of Holne Chase overlooking the River Dart. The hillfort survives as an oval enclosure measuring 120m long by 96m wide internally, defined by a single rampart and ditch with a counterscarp bank present to the north east, west and south west. It has two entrances, a simple gap to the south east and an inturned entrance to the south west."
Nearby sites: SX72447191

Ausewell Rocks W. Cairn

OS Map: SX 73477 71753
NMR record: SX 77 SW 11
HER record: MDV7988
ShortName: CN:Ausewell 2
Grinsell: ASH 2
Barrow Report: 41
Notes: "diameter 18.0m, crude stone wall around cairn obviously modern survives as a semi circular enclosure on west side of cairns flat top."
Nearby sites: SX73487175

Ausewell Rocks E. Cairn

OS Map: SX 73548 71735
NMR record: SX 77 SW 11
HER record: MDV8019
ShortName: CN:Ausewell 1
Grinsell: ASH 3
Barrow Report: 41
Nearby sites: SX73557174

Kingshead Reported Cairn

OS Map: SX 73000 72320
NMR: No record found
HER record: MDV20513
ShortName: CN?Kingshead
Nearby sites: SX73007232