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W White Barrow

W White Barrow

Western White Barrow (SX 665652) is a Bronze age cairn. Unlike Eastern White Barrow, it is quite badly damaged although it also has a impressive location overlooking the central wastes of the southern moor. Turf cutters from nearby Red Lake built themselves a shelter amidst the barrow and in so doing damaged the cairn. They knocked the arms off the old Petres Cross in 1847 and used it as a chimney breast. This is the view from Western White Barrow over to Fishlake and the River Avon

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