MSO8745 - Bronze Age burial cairn east of Old Barrow (Monument)

SS 8425 3247 . A prehistoric barrow is visible as a circular turf covered mound measuring 13.9 metres in diameter and 0.3 metres high. It has suffered from disturbance on its northern side from robbing. There is also a hollow 3.1 metres by 1.6 metres by 0.4 metres deep at its centre. [1] SS 84262 32488. A low, grass covered, stony mound, 13.9 metres in diameter and 0.3 metres high, lies on the east side of Old Barrow Down, close to the enclosure bank. A hollow in the centre, 3 metres long, 1.1 metres wide and 0.3 metres deep, may be the result of an unrecorded antiquarian excavation or robbing of stone for the nearby enclosure bank. This is a prehistoric funerary cairn, part of the Bronze Age ceremonial landscape on the summits of Old Barrow Down and Hawkridge Plain. [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]