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A platform cairn 240m NNE of Cawsand Beacon is a Bronze Age burial monument forming part of a cairn cemetery on the summit of Cawsand Hill in Devon. The platform cairn represents a distinctive funerary tradition of the Bronze Age, characterized by a level base constructed to support inhumation or cremation burials. This monument is one of several cairns distributed across the hilltop, demonstrating the importance of Cawsand Hill as a burial landscape during the second millennium BC. The cairn cemetery as a whole exemplifies the concentrated ritual and commemorative use of elevated sites that characterised Bronze Age funerary practice in south-west England.
A platform cairn 240m NNE of Cawsand Beacon forming part of a cairn cemetery on the summit of Cawsand Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010772. View the official record →
A platform cairn 240m NNE of Cawsand Beacon is a Bronze Age burial monument forming part of a cairn cemetery on the summit of Cawsand Hill in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010772.
A platform cairn 240m NNE of Cawsand Beacon forming part of a cairn cemetery on the summit of Cawsand Hill 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 1010772.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Kerbed cairn and cist 635m south west of The Grey Wethers (9.1 km), A partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement 670m south of The Grey Wethers (9.2 km), Two prehistoric settlements 1280m SSW of The Grey Wethers (9.6 km).
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