MSO12725 - Bronze Age burial cairn on Mill Hill (Monument)

One of three cairns discovered by Grinsell in April 1962 [1]. They are and visible as small heather-covered stony mounds situated at about 394m above OD on the top of the flat saddle ridge between Inner and Outer Alscott near Mill Hill. C.SS 8292 4504 The best of the three lies about 60 metres due east of B (MSO11489) and is a cairn 5 metres in diameter and 0.5 metres high. There is some slight erosion in the southwest quadrant and a few stones are exposed in the southeast. Some 10 metres west of cairn A is a low heather covered filed bank, part of the post medieval field system MMO657. It is possible that these are stone clearance heaps associated with it but their soild symmetrical appearance and prominent isolated position on the ridge suggest that they are almost certainly prehistoric burial cairns. [2] This record was enhanced as part of the National Record of the Historic Environment to Exmoor National Park Historic Environment Record data transfer project. [3]