Bronze Age cairn and post medieval shooting stand at Ravenshill Moor (Kielder)
(NY 63649541) Cairn. (1)
A mutilated, tree planted, round cairn measuring 2.3m in diameter with a maximum height of 1m. No traces of ditch or retaining circle. The feature falls within the bounds of Kielder Forest. (2)
The feature, correctly published on 6 inch is a tree-ring in the form of a dry-stone wall (see photograph). No trace of a cairn survives, but the ring may well be built on the base of one utilising the immediate vicinity. (3)
The alleged cairn is the eastern most of a line of three stone built shooting butts; there is no evidence of any earlier structure beneath. The only likely cairn in the vicinity is at NY 63509533 where a prominent rock knoll is surmounted by an ill-defined turf-covered stony area approximately 7m in diameter, although the remains are too vague for definite classification as a cairn. (This is almost certainly the old OS trig). (4)
The remains of a cairn exist to the south east of Ravenshill Moor just inside the forest fence. No trace of the !tree-ring! (authority 3). (5)
Additional reference (6)
A mutilated, tree planted, round cairn measuring 2.3m in diameter with a maximum height of 1m. No traces of ditch or retaining circle. The feature falls within the bounds of Kielder Forest. (2)
The feature, correctly published on 6 inch is a tree-ring in the form of a dry-stone wall (see photograph). No trace of a cairn survives, but the ring may well be built on the base of one utilising the immediate vicinity. (3)
The alleged cairn is the eastern most of a line of three stone built shooting butts; there is no evidence of any earlier structure beneath. The only likely cairn in the vicinity is at NY 63509533 where a prominent rock knoll is surmounted by an ill-defined turf-covered stony area approximately 7m in diameter, although the remains are too vague for definite classification as a cairn. (This is almost certainly the old OS trig). (4)
The remains of a cairn exist to the south east of Ravenshill Moor just inside the forest fence. No trace of the !tree-ring! (authority 3). (5)
Additional reference (6)
N6232
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1977; S Ainsworth
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