MSO6260 - Bronze Age burial cairn on Dunkery Hill (Monument)

At SS 9143 4236 is a circular, heather covered, mound of earth and stones 0.4 metres high. It is probably a small bowl barrow. Surveyed at 1:2500. [1-3] [SS 9143 4236 approximately] Bowl barrow 8 paces diameter and 1 foot high (Wootton Courtenay 8). Listed with reference to Ordnance Survey record. [4] [SS 9140 4235] Cairn [NR]. [5] A small, well preserved cairn lies on the southeast slope of Dunkery Hill, close to the bridle way at SS 91437 42360. It comprises a circular, heather covered mound of earth and stone, 7 metres in diameter and 1 metre high. The cairn was surveyed using differential GPS as part of the RCHME Exmoor Project. [6] SS 91444237. Round cairn on Dunkery Hill, forming part of a round cairn cemetery, the centre of which lies roughly 750 metres to the northwest. Scheduled on 23 April 2003. [7] In good condition. Wrongly positioned on Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division 6 inch map. [8] The Scheduled Monument Condition Assessment of 2009 gave the site a survival score of 3. [11] The site was surveyed in April 2015 as part of the 2015 Exmoor Scheduled Monument Condition Assessment. It was given a survival score of 0. [12] This record was enhanced as part of the National Record of the Historic Environment to Exmoor National Park Historic Environment Record data transfer project. [13]