MSO6258 - Bronze Age burial cairn on Luccombe Hill (Monument)

At SS 9126 4306, on a false crest well down the hillside, are the remains of a cairn. It is heather covered, very spread and poorly defined, and 0.5 metres high. Surveyed at 1:2500. [1-3] SS 9126 4306 approximately] Remains of cairn 13 paces diameter and 1.5ft high (Wootton Courtenay 5). [4] [SS 9126 4311] Cairn [NR]. [5] The cairn on the northern slopes of Luccombe Hill at SS 91276 43084 was surveyed by the RCHME using Leica single frequency GPS as part of the East Exmoor Project. The cairn comprises a low, circular mound of turf, earth and stone which measures 15 metres in diameter and a maximum of 0.6 metres high. There is much surface stone in the area, and a modern stone heap lies in the centre of the monument. The cairn lies on a natural terrace on the northern slopes of Luccombe Hill, occupying a false crest position. [6] Small low covered cairn, heather covered. [7] SS 91264310. Round cairn on Luccombe Hill, forming an outlying member of a round cairn cemetery, the centre of which lies upslope to the south west. Scheduled on 23 April 2003. [8] The Scheduled Monument Condition Assessment of 2009 gave the site a survival score of 3. [9] The site was surveyed in April 2015 as part of the 2015 Exmoor Scheduled Monument Condition Assessment. It was given a survival score of 3. [10] This record was enhanced as part of the National Record of the Historic Environment to Exmoor National Park Historic Environment Record data transfer project. [11]