What is recorded here
In a largely forested area within the Spinans Hill hillfort complex (WI021-080001-/WI027-078001-). A circular platform of stones (diam. c. 10m) c. 50m SW of a circular enclosure (WI027-078004-). (Condit 1992, 20). This location has been left unplanted.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 12 December 2012
A Neolithic cairn, likely dating to the early to middle Neolithic period (c. 4000–3000 BCE), associated with the Spinans Hill hillfort complex. Its location suggests a ritual or funerary function within a broader prehistoric landscape of settlement and defence.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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