Site Event/Activity record EEM14919 - 2020: TS - Chains Valley Stone Setting

Technique(s)

Organisation

Hazel Riley

Date

January 2020

Description

The site was investigated and surveyed in January 2020. Five stones were recorded by GPS, together with a previously unrecorded small circular mound to the southeast of the stone setting. A plan of the setting was surveyed at a scale of 1:200, with a further plan of its landscape context, including a 19th Century drainage ditch and the probable cairn, surveyed at 1:500.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Report: Riley, H.. 2020. Metric survey of three prehistoric stone settings, Exmoor National Park. Hazel Riley. p6-11, 19.

Map

Location

Location Chains Valley, Exmoor, Somerset
Grid reference SS 7492 4178 (point)
Map sheet SS74SW
Civil Parish EXMOOR, WEST SOMERSET, SOMERSET

Related Monuments/Buildings (2)

  • Prehistoric cairn at the Chains Valley (Monument)
  • The Chains Valley Stone Setting (Monument)

Record last edited

Jun 21 2021 1:09PM