More information : [SX 64357777] Stone Circle [NR]. (1)
Slight traces of a low cairn surrounded by a kerb circle 19 ft
diameter consisting of 13 stones (Plan). (2-3)
SX 64357776. On a northern crest of Lakehead Hill at 420m OD is
a cairn circle measuring 6.1m in diameter (see ground photograph).
It is planned by Worth, save for two additional stones within the
circle and a turf-covered mound near the centre measuring 1.2m by
1.5m and 0.2m high. This seems to conceal stones and may be the
remains of a cairn, may a band of displaced rubble to the W of
the perimeter.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on MSD and at 1:2500 on AO 25". (4)
[SX 64357776] Cairn Circle [NR] (5)
Additional bibliography. (6)
SX 64357777 (8). Round barrows on Lakehead Hill, scheduled. (7-8)
SX 64357776. A cairn circle, sited on the gentle northern slops of Lakehead Hill in an area of grassland and scrub. The circle is formed from eleven upright stones, plus two leaning stones. All are set on their edge and are on average 0.2m thick, up to 1m wide, and the tallest stands to 0.4m. Several others are apparently missing. On the south-west section five of the stones are spaced only 0.2m apart to form a kerb, others are spaced up to 0.6m apart. There is a turf mound located in the centre of the monument with a maximum diameter of 1.2 meters by 0.25m high. A stoney, linear mound on the south-west exterior is probably spoil from the cairn, removed during investigations by early barrow diggers. The ground in the vicinity is mostly level with only slight undulations on the south-east exterior. A gentle scarp 1.5m north of the circle forms the edge of a modern track.
Site surveyed and described by Butler in 1991. (9-10) |