West Hill (Quantock Hills)

Also known as:
Fire Beacon
Nearest town:
Williton (8km W)
OS reference:
ST152371
OS sheet:
181
Latitude:
51° 7' 34.85 N
Longitude:
3° 12' 42.95 W
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Image of West Hill (Quantock Hills) (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

Section of the bank around the rim of West Hill platform cairn.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.11.2018)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jan 4, 2019

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West Hill (Quantock Hills)
Cairn(s)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jan 4, 2019

Two large cairns on West Hill and Fire Beacon. Pastscape descriptions:

Fire Beacon cairn (ST 1491 3697)

A Bronze Age cairn located on the summit of Fire Beacon, a south west facing hill in the western region of the Quantock Hills. The cairn is of irregular shape with a spread mound, approximately 2 metres above ground level at its highest point and 26 metres in diameter. The surface of the mound has been disturbed which may indicate that a partial excavation has been carried out, probably in antiquity. Scheduled.

West Hill cairn (ST 15433719)

A very large platform cairn lies on the summit of West Hill at ST 1542 3717. The cairn comprises a rather disturbed stony mound, 28m in diameter and 1.6m high. Stone has been taken from the mound, probably to build the nearby enclosure bank. Despite this disturbance, the vestiges of a bank around the north part of the mound, and a central mound, 10m NS x 12m EW x 1m high, may be original features, suggesting that the cairn may have been an embanked platform cairn with a central mound.

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