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Summary

Vis=25/6/1953(os) about thirty tumuli. Sixteen larger ones surveyed. Other small mounds indistinguishable from heather clumps. Vary in size. All covered in heather or fern. None appear to have been excavated. Vis=13/10/1981 (os). The cairns cannot at present be located due to a dense growth of furze.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Prehistoric cairns nroth west of Thorns Cross Farm

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX88SE/6

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• BARROW (Prehistoric - 698000 BC to 42 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, Untitled Source (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV24.

Vis=25/6/1953(os) about thirty tumuli. Sixteen larger ones surveyed. Other small mounds indistinguishable from heather clumps. Vary in size. All covered in heather or fern. None appear to have been excavated. Vis=13/10/1981 (os). The cairns cannot at present be located due to a dense growth of furze.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV284466.

Osa=sx88se5.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV284467.

Grinsell, l. V. /pdas/41(1983)31.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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