MSO7768 - Bronze age barrow or burial cairn on Stowey Ridge (Monument)

SS 8090 4508. A sub-circular stony mound 0.2 metres high and 6 paces in diameter, slightly damaged by north to south ploughing in 1977, set on gentle north facing slope. Barrow excluded from ploughing in 1983. [1] Barrow extensively damaged by stock and when visited was heavily poached. Seems as though a feeding point was put on the top out of the waterlogged ground surrounding it. Suggested that the farmer pegs an area 12 metres diameter total around the barrow to allow regrowth of grass. [2] SS 8090 4508 - The ploughed down remains of a cairn visible as a subcircular turf covered stony rise about 7.5 metres north to south by 6 metres and 0.4 metres maximum height. Its content of small consoilidated stones extrude around the west side. It is situated on a slight east facing slope in a turnip field, some 385 metres above Ordnance Datum on Stowey Ridge. It is not shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey map [3] when the area was open moorland but is almost certainly a prehistoric burial cairn. [4] The barrow survives as a very low stoney mound within improved pasture. Locate to SS 80908 45124 by hand-held GPS. [5] This record was enhanced as part of the National Record of the Historic Environment to Exmoor National Park Historic Environment Record data transfer project. [6]