Scheduled Monument: Four round cairns on Dunkery Hill 400m south east of Joaney How Cairn (1020931)

Details The monument, which lies in four separate areas of protection, includes four prehistoric round cairns located in open moorland on the lower south eastern slopes of Dunkery Hill situated at the eastern end of Dunkery Ridge. The four round cairns are loosely grouped and form outlying members of a major round cairn cemetery, the centre of which is located some 500m upslope to the north west, on the summit of the hill and forms the subject of a separate scheduling. Two of the cairns are formed by circular stoney mounds 1m high surrounded by outer rims visible as low banks. The most southerly of these two has a diameter of 17m and the other, which forms the north easternmost of the group of four, is 18m in diameter and has a sub-circular depression in the centre of the mound. The two smaller cairns which make up the group, forming the westernmost and the southernmost of the four, are visible as earth and stone mounds, 7.4m in diameter and 0.6m in height, and 8.4m in diameter and 0.7m in height respectively. Selected Sources Book Reference - Title: National Monument Record - Type: DESC TEXT - Description: SS 94 SW 78 Book Reference - Title: National Monument Record - Type: DESC TEXT - Description: SS 94 SW 79 Book Reference - Title: National Monument Record - Type: DESC TEXT - Description: SS 94 SW 80 Book Reference - Title: National Monument Record - Type: DESC TEXT - Description: SS 94 SW 82 Article Reference - Author: Grinsell, L V - Title: Somerset Barrows - Date: 1969 - Journal Title: Proceedings Somerset Archaeological & Natural History Society - Volume: 113 - Page References: 43 - Type: DESC TEXT - Description: Wootton Courtenay No 2 Article Reference - Author: Grinsell, L V - Title: Somerset Barrows - Date: 1969 - Journal Title: Proceedings Somerset Archaeological & Natural History Society - Volume: 113 - Page References: 43 - Type: DESC TEXT - Description: Wootton Courtenay No 3