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Summary

Worth (1948) records possible cairns at this approximate location. There are natural mounds recorded to the north; see MDV4279-80 that may have been mis-identified.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66SW36
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442270
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SW/35

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• NATURAL FEATURE (Undated)
• (Former Type) CAIRN (Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2494, 3053-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDV147533.

Nothing visible on air photographs.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950/1979, SX66SW36 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV165400.

(SX 61576182) Cairn. Approximate siting only at 'A' (citing Worth, R. H., 10/12/1948).
(16/02/1952) There is no detail that could be termed a cairn at 'A', but cairns are prominent at SX 61626197 and SX 61646198.
(SX 61626197 and SW 61646199) Mounds (NAT) (1952 Ordnance Survey 25 inch historic map).
(14/07/1979) There is no cairn at Worth's siting which is at the bottom of a steep sided valley. He may have been referring to one of the published mounds, both of which are natural deposits of boulders on the narrow flood shelf 1.5m above the water level of the river. The southern mound measures 30.0m long, 10.0m wide and 1.7m high; the northern is 24.0m long, 10.0m wide and 1.3 m high. Other more amorphous deposits occur along the course.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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