MEM23198 - 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 spread of stones 2 metres in diameter in a waterlogged area at the downslope end of a low, apparently natural ridge. Two stones are exposed and others were located by probing. [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 spread of stones 2 metres in diameter at the downslope end of a low ridge of apparently natural origin. Two stones are exposed and others were located by probing. The feature is most likely a clearance cairn of prehistoric date and forms part of the field system MSO7102. [2]