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Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1019270) describes four cairns forming part of a cairn cemetery on a gentle south-facing slope above the valley of the River Mardle. The scheduling falls into four areas. The northern is a ring cairn, a rubble bank 1.5 metres wide and 0.5 metres high round a space 7.8 metres across, with edge-set slabs in the bank that may be a kerb. The second, to the south-east, is a mound 8 metres across and up to 0.4 metres high. The easternmost is 8.4 metres across and up to 1 metre high. The southern is flat-topped, 9.9 metres across and 0.7 metres high, with edge-set stones round its edge forming a kerb. Hollows and trenches cut into all four show early investigation. It lies in the parish of Holne, about 2.1 km west of Michelcombe.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1019270, which cites Butler, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol 4, The North (1993), page 172.
- Period: Bronze Age
- Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1019270)
- Grid reference: SX 6762 6913 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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