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Registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation Number 1155775
SWAAG Honorary President:
Tim Laurie F,S,A,

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 *****SWAAG_ID***** 820
 Date Entered 27/07/2014
 Updated on 15/09/2014
 Recorded by Doug Waugh
 Category Burial Mounds and Cairns
 Record Type Archaeology
 SWAAG Site Grinton Moor
 Site Access Public Access Land
 Record Date 24/07/2014
 Location Beside track to Grovebeck smelt mill from Grinton/Redmire road
 Civil Parish Grinton
 Brit. National Grid SE 042 973
 Record Name Small cairn that may be ring or quarried.
 Record Description Cairn that is 7m 20cms x 6m 70cms, with an internal circumference of 2m 80cms. The height of the bank is never more than 50cms at the highest point. This site is located within the coaxial field system which extends across the whole of Grinton Moor - see Coaxial Field Systems in Swaledale: A Reassessment by TC Laurie, NW Mahaffy and RF White, July 2010. The site is within the area G4 opposite the end of the Earthworks.
 Image 1 ID 5629         Click image to enlarge
 Image 1 Description View of the cairn
 Image 2 ID 5619         Click image to enlarge
 Image 2 Description The East side of the cairn.
 Image 3 ID 5652         Click image to enlarge
 Image 3 Description Drawing of the cairn.
 
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