MEM23219 - 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 stony mound approximately 2 metres in diameter and 0.1 metre high. [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 stony mound c. 2 metres in diameter and 0.1 metre high. It coincides with a well defined vegetation change and is possibly a prehistoric clearance cairn, although it could also have a natural origin. [2]