MEM23216 - Possible prehistoric clearance cairn on Lanacombe (Monument)

As part of the Exmoor Mires Project, Cornwall Council Historic Environment Service were contracted to undertake a non-intrustive walkover survey of the proposed mire restoration area on Lanacombe, which included this site. Visible was a clearance cairn, seen as a mound up to 3 metres in diameter and 0.15 metres high. Two exposed stones, the larger of which is 0.3 metres on its longer side, were visible on the upslope (southern) edge. [1] The Historic Environment Officer for the Exmoor Mires Project undertook a non-intrustive walkover survey of the proposed mire restoration area on Lanacombe, which included this site. Noted was a mound up to 3 metres in diameter and 0.15 metres high. Two exposed stones were visisble on the mound, the larger of which is 0.3 on its longer side. The feature coincides with a well defined vegetation change and is possibly a prehistoric clearance cairn, but may also have a natural origin. [2]