Leskernick complex - Long Mound / possible long cairn on The Beacon - 3.4.2003
I didn’t have all my details with me at the time so didn’t try to find this but on the lower slopes of The Beacon a possible long cairn has been discovered at SX19037955. I first saw it reported in the Cornwall Archaeological Unit’s Annual Review for 1995-6, which says it was first ‘recognised’ by Peter Herring and Tony Blackman on a field trip in April 1995. I’ve posted the full text on the The Leskernick ‘Quoit’ site. Later, more research was undertaken re this alignment by a team from University College, London but I don’t know the results of this.
Peter Herring and Peter Rose, in ‘Bodmin Moor’s Archaeological Heritage’ (Cornwall County Council - 2001) say that there are three known long cairns on Bodmin Moor (Bearah, Louden and Catshole) and three possibles (The Beacon, Kilmar, and Shallow Water Common). Typically they are slight elongated mounds 17 to 30 metres long, sometimes with traces of internal structuring, although the original nature of this is obscure. They would be of the 4th millennium BC and therefore some of the oldest structures on the Moor.
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