MSO6278 - Bronze Age burial cairn on Dunkery Hill (Monument)

A large cairn lies on the easr slopes of Dunkery Hill at SS 91070 42643. It comprises a circular stony mound with a heather covered outer rim, 18 metres in diameter and 1 metre high. A subcircular depression in the centre is 4.5 metres in diameter and 0.6 metres deep. The cairn was surveyed using differential GPS as part of the RCHME Exmoor Project. [1] SS 9105 4264. Round cairn on Dunkery Hill, forming part of a round cairn cemetery, the centre of which lies roughly 500 metres upslope to the north west. Scheduled. [2] This cairn has been transcribed as an earthwork from aerial photographs as part of the Exmoor National Mapping Programme survey. Centred on circa SS 9107 4264, the cairn appears slightly ovoid in shape and is up to circa 24 metres in diameter. It is one of eight cairns recorded in this area as part of the survey, although more are certainly present but not visible on the aerial photographs available. [3,4] Cairn with many stones exposed 24 paces diameter and 3.5ft high (Wootton Courtenay 2). [5] Found from aerial photographs. [6] Overgrown and disturbed, 1 metre high. [7] Hollow in centre. [8] The Scheduled Monument Condition Assessment of 2009 gave the site a survival score of 3. [9] The site was surveyed in April 2015 as part of the 2015 Exmoor Scheduled Monument Condition Assessment. It was given a survival score of 3. [10]