More information : (SD 89113259) Stone Circle (NR) Urn Found AD 1842 (NAT) (1)
Tumulus (Earth Circle) twenty one feet diameter containing calcined
human bones, found here in 1842 by Mr Studley Martin. About a yard
below the original surface an urn containing ashes and fragments
of partially burnt bones was found; it was of course material and
unornamented.
Visited 1932. No remains of a stone circle but the site is occupied
by the remains of a barrow 30 feet in diameter and barely 1 foot
in height. (2-4)
(SD 89113259) Cairn Circle (NR) (5)
A cairn circle surveyed at 1.2500 (6)
SD 8911 3259. Round cairn on Hameldon Pasture. Scheduled RSM
No 23722. A circular mound of earth and stones 13m in diameter
and up to 0.3m high. There are some shallow hollows on the
cairn's surface, the largest at the centre measures approx.
2.5m x 1.5m x 0.3m deep. These are the result of Studley Martin's
investigation of the cairn in 1843, which located an undecorated
urn containing the cremated remains of an adult and a child, in
a cist at the cairn's centre. (7)
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