More information : SX 55486347 Ring cairn or traces of cairn with retaining circle found by Plymouth Archaeological Group in 1959. Diameter 11.5m, height 0.3m. (1) Visited May 1976. A cairn 9.00m. in diameter with traces of a spaced stone kerb. It appears as a flat terrace some 40cms. high on a north facing slope and this may have been its original profile. (2) The cairn, at SX 55476347, is as described by (2). (see ground photograph and 1:2500 plan with 56 SE 45). Surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. (3)
Depicted by Butler (1994, Map 48). (4)
SX55476347. A probable platform cairn 8.0m by 9.1m across is visible as a level stance on a slight north-west facing hillslope at 261m above OD. It is defined by an incomplete ring of earthfast stones and boulders a maximum 0.5m high with, in the interior, a few visible boulders. A scarp on the downhill side indicates a slight levelled platform. Tracks skirt the south-east side of the feature.(5) |