More information : SX 55367470 Cairn, diameter 3.6m and height 0.3m.
Visited October 1975. (1)
A small but distinct cairn, its stone content exposed by a central excavation, situated at SX 55357471. The diameter is as recorded by Grinsell, but the height 0.5m
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on MSD and at 1:2500 (See SX 57 SE 12). (2)
SX55357472. A disturbed cairn composed of soil and stone 4.0m in overall diameter and a maximum 0.6m high. It has a ragged, 1.3 diameter 0.4m deep central pit: spoil from this pit is spread across the mound. There is no evidence of a retaining kerb. Listed by Butler as a 3.6m diameter cairn pitted at the centre. (3 and 4)
The Bronze Age cairn was recorded as an earthwork on 2021 Historic England orthomosaic aerial photography and visualisations of a Digital Elevation Model derived from the orthomosaic. The slight hollow in the top of the cairn mound measures approximately 1.3m by 0.7m on plan. The sub-circular cairn mound is approximately 3.9m in diameter. The site is scheduled (NHLE 1013429) and within the English Heritage Trust Merrivale Guardianship Area. The site was mapped from aerial sources in 2023 during the Historic England Dartmoor-Plym project. (5-6)
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