MSO11436 - Post-medieval or modern excavation spoil heap west of burial cairn (Monument)

'F' SS 92504791. Minehead Without 8a (also listed at at SS 9260 4785 by NRHE). Mound c.10 paces diameter and 2 feet high. Very large hole in centre. Uncertain whether it is a barrow or a spoil heap from MW8 (MSO7660). [1] 5 at 'F' SS 9250 4790. The west barrow of a pair of confluent barrows, overlain by the larger barrow (MSO7660) and considered by Grinsell to be a spoil heap. [2] Completely covered with gorse and heather. [3] Cigar shaped mound 0.6 metres high. [4] Incorrectly identified as Grinsell's Minehead Without 5 by Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division [2] and D Thackray [3]. [5] A spoil heap from the excavation of MSO7660 is piled up in a mound on the west side of the cairn. [8] Scheduling revised with new national number (was Somerset 345) on 3 September 2002. [9] The spoil heap was noted on aerial photographs as a confluent circular mound at SS 9249 4791, measuring about 7 metres in diameter and described by [8]. [10-12] This record was enhanced as part of the National Record of the Historic Environment to Exmoor National Park Historic Environment Record data transfer project. [13,14]