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Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1007655) describes a cairn on a south-facing slope overlooking the valley of the Walla Brook. The mound is egg-shaped, aligned north-north-east to south-south-west, 4 metres long by 3 metres wide and up to 0.8 metres high. It is an outlying part of a cairnfield of at least 22 mounds, with a length of boundary bank and a lynchet, on the north-eastern slope of White Hill. It lies in the parish of Peter Tavy, about 1.1 km south-west of Doe Tor and 2.6 km east of Lydford.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1007655, which cites Butler, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities (1991), page 107, Raymond, Single Monument Class Description: Cairnfields (1987), and fieldwork for the Monuments Protection Programme by S. Gerrard.
- Period: Bronze Age
- Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1007655)
- Grid reference: SX 5355 8400 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
Historic England listed designation: Southern of five cairns forming an outlying part of a cairnfield on the north eastern slope of White Hill
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