MSO11488 - Bronze Age burial cairn on Mill Hill (Monument)

SS 8296 4496. Cairn 6 paces diameter and 1 foot high (Oare 5a), discovered by Grinsell 25th April 1962 on recently swaled heath. [1] It is small heather covered mound of peat and stones, unlikely to be a barrow. Is at SS 8281 4508 rather than SS 8296 4496 as given by Grinsell. [2] One of three cairns visible as small heather covered stony mounds situated at about 394 metres above Ordnance Datum on the top of the flat saddle ridge between Inner and Outer Alscott near Mill Hill. A. SS 8283 4504. The cairn is about 4.5 metres in diameter and 0.4 metres high. It lies slightly down the west slope of the saddle. Some 10 metres west of cairn A is a low heather covered filed bank, part of the post medieval field system MMO657. It is possible that these are stone clearance heaps associated with it but their soild symmetrical appearance and prominent isolated position on the ridge suggest that they are almost certainly prehistoric burial cairns. [3] This record was enhanced as part of the National Record of the Historic Environment to Exmoor National Park Historic Environment Record data transfer project. [4,5]