Field Visit
Date 21 February 1979
Event ID 1123035
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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NT05SW 17 c.031 504.
This extensive area of small cairns is divided naturally into two groups by a deep gully. The northerly group, centred at NT 031 503, occupies about 15 hectares of undulating moorland, and the southern group, centred at NT 032 495, covers and area of 20 hectares. These heather-covered stony mounds are similar to others in the region which have been identified as probable stone clearance heaps. Several mounds are noticeably larger than their neighbours but these cannot be superficially identified as burial cairns. There is no apparent trace of lynchets or field banks, and the date and purpose of most of the enclosures noted within this area cannot be determined from ground inspection although some are clearly associated with moorland sheep farming.
Visited by OS (BS) 21 February 1979
