| Summary : Tor cairn 16.5m in diameter at Shell Top. The Bronze Age cairn, recorded by previous authorities, is visible as a structure on Environment Agency 1m Lidar data flown in 2019 and 2021 Historic England orthomosaic aerial photography. The site was mapped from aerial sources in 2023 during the Historic England Dartmoor-Plym project.
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| More information : The blocks on Shell Top (SX 59766380) appear to have
been moved to form a triangular cist. Around the blocks there
is a mound, constructed of small boulders, but not enough to
have formed a cairn. (1)
SX 59756379. Shell Top is a small granite tor lying 470m. above
OD., and two of the upper blocks are displaced to form a triangular
cavity, 2.5m. by 1.5m. maximum, and 0.8m. deep; it is floored
by granite and empty. The displacement is almost certainly natural
and the resultant cavity is far in excess of the usual cist
dimensions. Small boulders have been placed around the tor to
form a typical tor cairn, 16.5m. diameter and 1.4m. high; the
tor standing 1.4m. above them.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on PFD. (2)
Depicted and described by Butler. (3)
SX 59756379. The tor cairn remains as described by Authority 2. Later activity on and around this feature is evidenced by an early OS triangulation mark inscribed on the highest part of the tor and a large rectangular pit, possibly of military origin, impinging on the NE side of the cairn. (4)
The Bronze Age cairn, recorded by previous authorities, is visible as a structure on Environment Agency 1m Lidar data flown in 2019 and 2021 Historic England orthomosaic aerial photography. The site was mapped from aerial sources in 2023 during the Historic England Dartmoor-Plym project. It is centred on SX 59761 63798. Overall it measures approximately 20m in diameter. Scheduled monument NHLE 1011955. (5-6)
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