More information : There are two barrows or cairns in a north-south alignment, with another further to the south which is more prominent (HOB: 428343). When the site was visited in 1996 and 1998, both mounds were covered in gorse, grass and bramble which made interpretation difficult.
The central mound of the group has the appearance of a roughly hollowed out pile of stones surrounded by irregular dumps and scarps thought to result from disturbance to the mound or from nearby prospecting pits; the barrow was described in evaluation as ¿a severely damaged cairn¿. Loose stone from the matrix of the cairn appear to be fire blackened, perhaps as a result of the use of the mound as a fire beacon.
The northernmost mound of the group appears as a very irregular stony spread about 30m by 19m in an area of rough ground characterised by a series of low roughly shaped mounds; it was described in evaluation as ¿an elongated amorphous mound¿.
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