MEM23203 - 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 clearance cairn, seen as a low mound 2 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 2 metres in diameter and up to 0.1 metre high. Stone was detected within the mound by probing. The feature may be a prehistoric clearance cairn, but may also be natural in origin. [2]