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“The peat glowed as though it were red-hot, and night brooded on the eastern face of every hill.”
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- Period: Bronze Age
- Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1010591)
- Grid reference: SX 56909 90553
The mound is 13 m across and up to 0.9 m high. A rectangular trench runs from the west side towards the centre and suggests early digging. Small round hollows cut into the core and around the edges are probably shell holes, which suggests the cairn was used as a target in military training. It is the easternmost outlier of the cluster of cairns along the Longstone Hill ridge, on the lower slope of Yes Tor.
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