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Small cairn in the White Hill cairnfield
Grid ref: SX 5258 8379
On walking routes: The Lichway
Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1007542) describes a small cairn on a gentle west-facing slope overlooking Lydford village. The mound is egg-shaped, aligned east to west, 3.8 metres long by 3 metres wide and up to 0.2 metres high. It is part of a cairnfield of twenty-six mounds and a lynchet on the western slope of White Hill. It lies in the parish of Peter Tavy, about 1.9 km south-west of Doe Tor.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1007542, which cites Fleming, 'The Cairnfields of North-West Dartmoor' (Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings 38, 1980), pages 9 to 12, and Raymond, Single Monument Class Description: Cairnfields (1987).
- Period: Bronze Age
- Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1007542)
- Grid reference: SX 5258 8379 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
Historic England listed designation: The southernmost of four cairns forming part of the cairnfield on the western slope of White Hill
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