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Botley Stone

Ring Cairn

Nearest Town:Church Stretton (6km NNE)
OS Ref (GB):   SO4069489558 / Sheet: 137
Latitude:52° 30' 0.93" N
Longitude:   2° 52' 25.49" W

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English Heritage description (sounds more like a bowl barrow than a ring cairn...):

The monument includes the remains of a small ring cairn situated on the summit of Churchmoor Hill. The monument is visible as a well defined, doughnut shaped mound 9m in diameter, comprising a turf covered circular bank 2.5m wide and 0.5m high surrounding a central hollow 4m in diameter and 0.4m deep. Although no longer visible at ground level, a ditch, from which material was quarried during the construction of the monument, surrounds the bank. This has become infilled with the passage of time but survives as a buried feature some 1.5m wide.
thesweetcheat Posted by thesweetcheat
3rd December 2011ce