Archaeology Notes
Event ID 683754
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NO14NW 29 1173 4751.
Conspicuously situated on a rise at NO 1173 4751 is a near square setting of four boulders each between 3.0m and 3.5m apart, which appears to be the remains of a class of burial cairn first recognised by Burl and provisionally called a 'four-poster'.
H A W Burl 1971
Each is tilted outwards, two being almost prostrate, and partly overgrown with peat and heather and unusually small. When upright the largest two, in the W, can hardly have stood higher than 0.8m. The SE pair are set with their faces opposing the faces of the NW pair.
The stones are not on a mound but c.1.5m outside the SW stone is a slight curving scarp which could be due to an initial levelling of the site though the area has at one time been afforested, and it may be due to later activities.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (JM) 28 January 1975