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A cairn cemetery on Long Ridge

England
List entry 1017868
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1017868
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.13 hectares
Grid reference
SX 64527 85920, SX 64352 85934, SX 64388 86116, SX 64384 86237, SX 64304 86301
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

A cairn cemetery on Long Ridge is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial monument located in Devon, England. The site consists of multiple cairns, which are stone burial mounds constructed as communal or individual graves during prehistoric periods. Such cairn cemeteries represent important evidence of funerary practices and settlement patterns in early Britain, reflecting the organisation and beliefs of ancient communities. The monument is recorded on the National Heritage List for England under entry 1017868, indicating its recognised archaeological and historical significance.

A cairn cemetery on Long Ridge is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017868. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is A cairn cemetery on Long Ridge?

A cairn cemetery on Long Ridge is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial monument located in Devon, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017868.

Who is responsible for protecting A cairn cemetery on Long Ridge?

A cairn cemetery on Long Ridge is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1017868.

What other scheduled monuments are near A cairn cemetery on Long Ridge?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Gunpowder factory at Powder Mills, a partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement and round cairn (8.5 km), A partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement, two cairns containing cists and a post-medieval building 440m NNW of Powder Mills (8.6 km), Five cairns, two stone alignments and three cists, forming part of a ritual complex on Lakehead Hill (8.7 km).

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Monuments
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Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Gunpowder factory at Powder Mills, a partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement and round cairn
8.5 km
A partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement, two cairns containing cists and a post-medieval building 440m NNW of Powder Mills
8.6 km
Five cairns, two stone alignments and three cists, forming part of a ritual complex on Lakehead Hill
8.7 km
Three pillow mounds adjacent to Longaford Tor forming an outlying part of a rabbit warren on the western slopes of Longaford and Littaford Tors
8.7 km
Two cairns with two cists and a stone hut circle on the east facing slope of Lakehead Hill forming part of a ritual complex
8.9 km
Pillow mound 670m WNW of Longaford Tor forming an outlying part of a rabbit warren on the western slopes of Longaford and Littaford Tors
8.9 km
Enclosure on Cator Common, 400m ESE of Riddon Brake
9.2 km
Ring cairn 296m south east of Riddon Brake
9.2 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under A cairn cemetery on Long Ridge

A cairn cemetery on Long Ridge stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.

The wider landscape

Around A cairn cemetery on Long Ridge

ExeterRoman town · ~17.6 miles
Domesday entry for Teigncombe, Devon →
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