image for illustration: Jon Coupland / Bodmin Moor field boundary Commons Wikimedia
The Devon and Cornwall Police Rural Affairs Team are seeking information following damage caused to bronze age cairn which sits between Longstone Cross (Long Tom) and Craddock Circle near Minions on Bodmin Moor Cornwall.
Devon and Cornwall Police write:
Between 15th August and 6th September 2024, more damage has been caused to the giant cairn which sits between Longstone Cross (Long Tom) and Craddock Circle near Minions on Bodmin Moor. This site has suffered over the years with people moving quite large quantities of stones around to build ‘fairy stacks’, seats, low walls and barriers. Sadly the end result is a protected Scheduled Monument which has been extensively altered and its place in the wider historic landscape potentially compromised as its construction and precise location is inextricably linked to other scheduled monuments nearby.
The Devon and Cornwall Police Rural Affairs Team are seeking to highlight the fact that Scheduled Monuments are protected in law and it is a criminal offence to damage them in any way. Moving stones inside a scheduled monument is an act of damage and therefore constitutes the full offence. Police are appealing for any witnesses to this latest incident…
