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Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1010778) describes a cairn and cist at the outer edge of a cairnfield on a gentle north-west-facing slope of Homerton Hill, above the West Okement River. Other cairns, an enclosure and a bank nearby have their own schedulings. The mound is 4 metres across and up to 0.7 metres high on the downslope side, 0.3 metres on the upslope. Partial excavation has uncovered a cist running north-north-west to south-south-east, 1.05 metres long, 0.45 metres wide and 0.5 metres deep. One end stone was taken out during the dig, and the cover stone, also moved then, lies just north-north-east of the mound. It lies in the parish of Okehampton Hamlets, about 0.9 km north-east of Shelstone Tor and 2.8 km east of Sourton.
The cairn belongs to a group that most likely represents stone cleared for cultivation, though some examples were clearly used for burial too.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1010778, which cites the Devon County Sites and Monuments Register (SX59SE56, 1980) and fieldwork for the Monuments Protection Programme by S. Gerrard.
- Period: Bronze Age
- Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1010778)
- Grid reference: SX 5620 9057 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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