Monument Number 442974 |
Hob Uid: 442974 | |
Location : Devon South Hams Holne
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Grid Ref : SX6694071180 |
Summary : A turf and bracken covered Bronze Age cairn forming part of a cairn cemetery on Holne Ridge. The mound measures 14 metres by 14.4 metres in diameter and standing to a height of 1.4 metres. Scheduled. |
More information : (SX 66937118) Cairn (NR) (1) SX 66947118 A round cairn, 13.3 metres diameter and 1.0 metres high at the north end of a narrow level ridge at 385 metres above OD. It is constructed of small boulders now turf covered and has a central distrubance but no other particular features. 1:10 000 survey revised on PFD. (2)
SX 66947118. A turf and bracken covered mound measuring 14.0 metres north to south by 14.4 metres and a maximum of 1.4 metres high. Some of the stoney cairn fabric is visible in the central disturbance described by Authority 2. There is no trace of a cist or kerb. This feature is one of the most northerly of a line of elaborate prehistoric sepulchral monuments that descend Holne Ridge in the direction of Combestone Tor. (3)
Depicted by Butler (1993 Map 60). (4)
SX 6692 7118. Location of 2 of 8 Bronze Age cairns forming part of a cairn cemetery on Holne Ridge and a stone alignment immediately west of Horns Cross. Scheduled. (5) |