More information : SX 58048921 An Early/Middle Bronze Age tor cairn on the summit of High Willhays, the highest point in southern England. The cairn includes two semicircular banks attached to the eastern face of a large rock outcrop. Scheduled. (1)
SX 58038922. A semi-circle of leaning orthostats adjacent to the E side of one of the outcrops forming High Willhays. The stones remain a maximum of 0.75m high and describe an arc some 9m in length. Small boulders and slabs are interspersed with the orthostats suggestive of a ring cairn, in this case attached to the tor. The outer ring described by Authority 1 is visible as a slight scarp a maximum of 0.2m high curving around the NE quadrant of the inner ring. It may represent a second element to the cairn or, more likely, be the result of stone removal in the more recent past.
The outcrop to which this cairn is attached is crowned by a recent walkers' cairn which presumably contains material derived from this feature.
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