A perplexing monument, perhaps best desribed as a cairn. Described in 1819 as, 'three concentric circles of flat stones', with a cist at the centre, in 1899 as a circle of 15-22 stones, enclosing traces of an inner ring, and finally a cairn. The description of the 'filling-up' of the monument with large pebbles from the common, in 1819, sounds uncannily like cairn construction and it tempting to classify this as a 19th century ritual monument. There are clear traces of robbibg/excavation at the center of the cairn.
(source Os495card; SN70NW6)
J.Wiles 27.03.02