MSO7657 - Bronze Age burial cairn at Selworthy Beacon (Monument)

'D' SS 92404803. Minehead Without 5 (also described at SS 9249 4791 by NRHE). It is 10 paces in diameter and 2 feet high with a hollow in centre. [1] 4a at 'D' SS 9240 4803 is a bowl barrow with a hollow centre. [2] Covered in gorse, otherwise in good condition. [3] Wrongly identified by the Ordnance Survey Archaeological Division [2] and D Thackray [3] as Grinsell's Minehead Without 4a. [4] A small cairn at SS 92398 48031 was surveyed using differential GPS as part of the RCHME East Exmoor project. It consists of a small circular mound, 8.5 metres in diameter and 0.6 metres high. The mound is gorse and heather covered, and a contains a small central depression. [5] Monument scheduled on 3 September 2002. [6] SS 925 479. Group of Cairns East of Selworthy Beacon. Scheduled. [8] Of the group of 11 cairns on the ridge of Selworthy Beacon, 2 or 3 were open in 1807 by Richard Fenton. Only charcoal was recovered. [9] The cairn is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs. The cairn is centred at SS 9240 4803 and is as described above [5]. [10-12] The Scheduled Monument Condition Assessment of 2009 gave the site a survival score of 3. [13] The site was surveyed in June 2015 as part of the 2015 Exmoor Scheduled Monument Condition Assessment. It was given a survival score of 3. [14] The feature is the smaller of two features depicted and labelled as tumuli on the 2020 MasterMap data at SS 9240 4803. [15] This record was enhanced as part of the National Record of the Historic Environment to Exmoor National Park Historic Environment Record data transfer project. [16,17]