Cairn on Ridge hill, East Moor

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Cairn on Ridge hill, East Moor

Image: © Jim Champion Taken: 13 Aug 2007

This cairn is at the eastern end of the summit of (the appropriately named) Ridge hill, marked as a 'tumulus' on the OS map. It looks as if it could have been adapted to use as a sheep pen in more recent times. The monument's scheduling says that it is 22.7 metres in diameter and up to 1.3 metres high. Partial excavation in the nineteenth century revealed a central slab over a cremation burial, surrounded by concentric rings of slabs in the cairn's mound. In the distance are the green fields of the farmland to the northeast of the moor.

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Image Location

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Latitude
50.573453
Longitude
-4.482689