MSO7659 - Bronze Age burial cairn at Selworthy Beacon (Monument)

A Bronze Age burial cairn, part of a group east of Selworthy Beacon, is visible as a stony mound measuring 8.4 metres by 11.2 metres and 0.5 metres high. It has been damaged by World War Two military activity. Summary from record MSO11434: A small prehistoric cairn with evidence of distrurbance during WW2.

A barrow approximately 7 paces in diameter and 1 foot high (Minehead Without 7). Visited by Grinsell 11 September 1959. [1] Small low heather covered mound, a rather doubtful barrow. [2] A 'rather doubtful bowl barrow' covered with heather and gorse. [3] A cairn, part of a group east of Selworthy Beacon, lies at SS 92458 47952. It was surveyed using differential GPS as part of the RCHME Exmoor project. It comprises a stony mound, 8.4 metres north to south, 11.2 metres east to west and 0.5 metres high. The southern side of the mound has been damaged by World War Two activity. [4] Monument scheduled on 3 September 2002. [5] SS 925 479. Group of Cairns East of Selworthy Beacon. Scheduled. [6] Of the group of 11 cairns on the ridge of Selworthy Beacon, 2 or 3 were open in 1807 by Richard Fenton. Only charcoal was recovered. [7] It was not possible to identify the cairn on the available photography. This is probably due to the slight nature of the mound. [9-10] The Scheduled Monument Condition Assessment of 2009 gave the site a survival score of 3. [11] The site was surveyed in June 2015 as part of the 2015 Exmoor Scheduled Monument Condition Assessment. It was given a survival score of 3. [12] The feature appears to be depicted but not labelled at SS92414797 on the 2020 MasterMap data. [13]