West Saddlesborough Cairn

Nearest town:
Plympton (7km S)
OS reference:
SX553634
OS sheet:
202
Latitude:
50° 27' 6.97 N
Longitude:
4° 2' 18.62 W
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Image of West Saddlesborough Cairn (Cairn) by thesweetcheat

Looking WSW across the cairn, towards Shaden Moor. In situ kerbing can be seen on the north side of the mound.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.2.2013)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Feb 6, 2013
Image of West Saddlesborough Cairn (Cairn) by thesweetcheat

The rather lumpy West Saddlesborough cairn, looking approx east. It’s not clear whether the large stone in the right foreground is a detached part of the structure (kerbing?) or just a naturally placed rock.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.2.2013)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Feb 6, 2013
Image of West Saddlesborough Cairn (Cairn) by Mr Hamhead

A short distance from the road, bare of bracken in the early spring sunshine, looking north.

Mr Hamhead
Mr Hamhead Mar 22, 2009

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West Saddlesborough Cairn
Cairn(s)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Feb 6, 2013

Jeremy Butler (Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities Volume 3, 1994 Devon Books) has a brief description of this cairn:

Strangely, the large cairn (11.0 x 1.4m) has escaped comparatively lightly. Its top has been hollowed but part of the retaining circle remains despite the deep gouges into its base.

Pastscape (Fletcher MJ and Probert SAJ, 1997) has this:

SX55326346. The remains of a turf-covered cairn located on a west-facing slope at 253m above OD and adjacent to the line of the reave. It measures 8.9m to 10.5m across and is 0.8m high. Four or five kerb stones are visible mostly in the north-west quadrant; two are 0.4m high. The cairn has been disturbed and debris partially infills a robbing trench of the terminal reave

The cairn is scheduled.

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