| Summary : Bronze Age turf covered platform cairn with an overall diameter of 22.5m, the perimeter slope being 0.8m high on the south west and 0.5m high on the north east. At the top of this slope there is a berm 1m wide, on the inner side of which there is a rim bank 2m wide and 0.1m high. Within this the top of the cairn, 10.5m across, is flat save for a central mound, 3.5m in diameter. It is barely 0.2m high, and slightly dug away on the north east side. Scheduled. |
More information : [SX 2501 7196] Tumulus (Platform barrow) (1)
SX 25027197. A turf covered flat topped tumulus, probably mainly
stone 22.2m in diameter and up to 0.7 high, no trace of ditch.
Fairly well preserved.
Surveyed at 1:2500. (2)
Flat topped, so perhaps a plate barrow. Possible mound 4m in
diameter, centrally. (3)
Depicted on NMR Bodmin Moor Survey AP transcription. (4)
A turf covered cairn on the level unenclosed moorland of a narrow
plateau at about 328m above OD. Has an overall diameter of 22.5m, the
perimeter slope being 0.8m high on the south west and 0.5m high on the north east. At the top of this slope there is a berm 1m wide, on the inner side of which there is a rim bank 2m wide and 0.1m high. Its stone content is partly visible and though it may conceal a wall the stones seem to be of small 'rubble' type.
Within this the top of the cairn, 10.5m across, is flat save for a
central mound, 3.5m in diameter. It is barely 0.2m high, and slightly dug away on the north east side.
A cropmark around the north and east perimeter may indicate a former
ditch but this is very uncertain. The monument is best classified as
a rimmed platform cairn with central mound.
In good condition, apparently untouched apart from a minor 6m cutting
along part of the perimeter, possibly of military origin.
Surveyed at 1:2500. (5)
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