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MONUMENT NO. 304041

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Possible chambered cairn - site obscured by rubbish dumping. Flint implements have been found in the area.

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SV 92001169 (1). A possibly undistrubed chambered
cairn or barrow near Maypole situated just to the west of the
junction of High Lane and the road to Holy Vale.

Ashbee notes worked flints being found at Maypole, probably
now in Hugh Town Museum. They probably include the four
'thumb-nail' scrapers in the museum, illustrated by Mackenzie
which were found at Maypole, in 1925.

A small banked, open ended feature is visible at the given
reference.

This cairn/barrow is not listed in Ashbee's gazeteer (3).

At SV 92001170, in the grounds of a house on the south west
side of High Lane, is a large mound low and amorphous, situated
on the summit of a small ridge. This mound has been built up,
or added to, by dumping of refuse in recent years. It is
possible that the cairn referred to by Ashbee lies underneath
as a search of the area failed to reveal any other likely site.
The mound, shaped as an elongated horseshoe, measures 20.0 m x
12.0 m overall, and varies in height from 1.6 m on the south to
0.9 m on the north east.

Surveyed at 1:2500 on PFD.

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( 1) Annotated Record Map

Corr 6" (P Ashbee undtd)

( 2) General reference

Corn Arch 2 1963 15 No 22 (P Ashbee)

( 3) General reference

Anc Scilly 1974 324 (P Ashbee)

( 4) General reference

Corn Arch 6 1967 109 illust (P Z Mackenzie)

( 5a) General reference

APs (OS/76/164/080-1 6.8.76)

( 6) Field Investigators Comments

F1 JGB 18-FEB-78

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