Heath Mynd

Nearest town:
Bishop's Castle (6km S)
OS reference:
SO33569408
OS sheet:
137
Latitude:
52° 32' 24.31 N
Longitude:
2° 58' 47.06 W
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Image of Heath Mynd (Platform Cairn) by thesweetcheat

North towards Stapeley Hill and Mitchell’s Fold stone circle. This part of the cairn seems to have a self-contained footprint and it’s not easy to see how it forms part of a much larger feature. Perhaps the heather hides the answers!

Image credit: A. Brookes (16.1.2016)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Feb 21, 2016
Image of Heath Mynd (Platform Cairn) by thesweetcheat

The northern part of the cairn. Looking northeast towards the Stiperstones ridge, another hill topped with cairns.

Image credit: A. Brookes (16.1.2016)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Feb 21, 2016
Image of Heath Mynd (Platform Cairn) by thesweetcheat

If this is genuinely all one cairn then it’s huge. Looking northwest to Corndon Hill, across the border in Wales. Corndon boasts a superb cairn cemetery.

Image credit: A. Brookes (16.1.2016)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Feb 21, 2016
Image of Heath Mynd (Platform Cairn) by thesweetcheat

The OS trig pillar has been built into the cairn. Looking southish towards Bishop’s Castle. The Malverns are just visible way to the southeast.

Image credit: A. Brookes (16.1.2016)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Feb 21, 2016
Image of Heath Mynd (Platform Cairn) by thesweetcheat

The round-topped Heath Mynd, seen from the Stiperstones ridge to the north.

Image credit: A. Brookes (21.12.2011)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Dec 24, 2011

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Heath Mynd
Platform Cairn
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Nov 12, 2011

Heath Mynd lies to the southeast of much be-cairned Corndon Hill and its steepness on all sides makes it a Marilyn. There is a complex cairn on the summit, which Pastscape give as a ring cairn surmounting a platform cairn:

A platform cairn surmounted by a ring cairn is situated at SO 33569408, upon the highest part of Heath Mynd at about 445.0m. above OD., in open moorland.

The platform cairn measures 20.5m. in diameter, and stands 0.7m. above present ground level. It is composed of mixed large and small stones, mossed over around the perimeter, but disturbed internally over much of its area; the stones having been scooped out to make sheep shelters in recent times (On the north-west side is a circular sheep shelter, 4.5m. across and 0.7m. high).

Within and against the perimeter on the north-east side, is a well-preserved ring cairn, measuring 8.5m. in diameter, and 0.6m. in height above the surface level of the platform cairn. It comprises an unbroken bark of large stones and boulders, 3.5m. in width, topped with a layer of small stone which is packed into the larger stones below, to give the cairn a well-finished appearance. Into the interior, (which is the surface of the platform cairn below) has been thrown a heap of large boulders in recent times. South-west of the centre of the platform cairn, an O.S. traingulation pillar has been erected.

The assemblance is reminiscent of the cairns on Allt Llwyd, Gwynedd

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