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A ring cairn 490m north east of Great Trowlesworthy Tor is a Bronze Age burial monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. The site consists of a circular stone cairn with a distinctive central depression or hollow, characteristic of ring cairn monuments from the second millennium BCE. Such monuments typically served as communal or individual burial structures and often formed part of larger ceremonial landscapes on the moorland. The ring cairn is part of the concentrated distribution of Bronze Age barrows and cairns found across this sector of Dartmoor, reflecting intensive use of the upland during the Bronze Age period.
A ring cairn 490m north east of Great Trowlesworthy Tor is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015743. View the official record →
A ring cairn 490m north east of Great Trowlesworthy Tor is a Bronze Age burial monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015743.
A ring cairn 490m north east of Great Trowlesworthy Tor 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 1015743.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Prehistoric barrow cemetery on Crownhill Down, 900m north of Drakelands Farm (4.9 km), Barrow cemetery on western slope of Crownhill Down (5 km), Round barrow 950yds (868m) N of Drakeland Corner (5.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of A ring cairn 490m north east of Great Trowlesworthy Tor's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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A ring cairn 490m north east of Great Trowlesworthy Tor stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.