Excavation
Date 1978 - 1979
Event ID 1040273
Category Recording
Type Excavation
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A complex ring-cairn. Partial excavation of the SW quadrant in 1978-9 revealed that the cairn had been enclosed in a circle of sandstone slabs 21.8m in diameter. Only 5 of these remain. A 3m wide x 0.7m stoney bank surrounded this circle and within it was a low penannular cairn of heavy boulders capped with small angular pieces of red sandstone over which modern dumping of stones had occurred when the track was cut through the N part of the cairn.
A Burl 1977; 1980.