More information : SX 574602. A probable cairn on Crownhill Down. 20 feet in diameter and 2 feet high. It could be part of the adjoining boundary bank. (1)
At SX 57476026 is a cairn measuring 6.0m. in diameter and 0.5m. high with seven large stones on its perimeter. A prehistoric wall runs north-south along its western flank. (2)
At SX 57486026, on the western crest of Crownhill Down, there is a furze- and turf-covered cairn 3.8m. in diameter and 0.5m.high. It has a peristalith of six large boulders, fairly regularly spaced, with an overall diameter between 5.4m. and 6.0m. Three of the stones are earthfast and three probably displaced.
There seems no reason to suppose that these are not an original feature and similar blocks occur around two of the Wotter cairns (SX 56 SE 53). A boundary work, probably a parallel reave 1.3m. wide and 0.4m. high, (ditched in Medieval or later times?), makes a distinct detour to join the cairn.
This cairn as with that nearby (SX 56 SE 121) is not recorded
in Grinsell's list (3).
Surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. (See also sketch plan and ground photograph). (4)
SX57486026. A cairn set on a high point with distant views in most directions. It lies in dense gorse in an area of close-cropped moorland turf and comprises an amorphous mound 0.5m high enclosed by an incomplete ring of boulders. Six boulders, up to 0.4m high, are earthfast and others lie where they have been deposited.
A field boundary which runs roughly north-south appears to have incorporated the featrue. (5) |