MEM23201 - Possible 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 low mound 3 metres in diameter and up to 0.1 metre high. Stone was detected within the vegetation covered mound 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 low mound 3 metres in diameter and up to 0.1 metres high. Stone was detected within it by probing and this feature may be a prehistoric clearance cairn, but could also have a natural origin. [2]