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Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1007658) describes two cairns in an east to west line on a south-facing slope overlooking the valley of the Walla Brook. The western cairn is 5 metres across and up to 0.7 metres high. The eastern is egg-shaped, aligned north-east to south-west, 4 metres long by 3 metres wide and 0.5 metres high. They are 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. The scheduling map may seem to join this site to a neighbouring one, but on the ground they are separate. It lies in the parish of Peter Tavy, about 1 km south-west of Doe Tor and 2.5 km east of Lydford.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1007658, 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 1007658)
- Grid reference: SX 5353 8407 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
Historic England listed designation: Two cairns forming the north eastern edge of a cairnfield on the north eastern slope of White Hill
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