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A ring cairn 700m south east of Runnage Bridge, on the southern side of Soussons Down, is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age burial monument located in Devon. The site consists of a circular arrangement of stones forming a ring, a form of cairn construction characteristic of upland burial practices in the south-western peninsula during the third and second millennia before the common era. Such ring cairns typically served as communal or family burial sites, with the stone ring structure marking and containing the sepulchral deposits. The monument's position on Soussons Down reflects the Bronze Age preference for establishing burial cairns on elevated moorland locations, areas that would have remained visible and significant within the prehistoric landscape.
A ring cairn 700m south east of Runnage Bridge, on the southern side of Soussons Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018789. View the official record →
A ring cairn 700m south east of Runnage Bridge, on the southern side of Soussons Down, is a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age burial monument located in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018789.
A ring cairn 700m south east of Runnage Bridge, on the southern side of Soussons Down 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 1018789.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Enclosed prehistoric settlement and three round cairns 870m south east of Horn's Cross (8.2 km), Round cairn 580m south of Horn's Cross forming part of a cairn cemetery on Holne Ridge (8.3 km), Stone hut circle and length of boundary walling 860m south west of Venford Reservoir dam (8.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of A ring cairn 700m south east of Runnage Bridge, on the southern side of Soussons Down's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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A ring cairn 700m south east of Runnage Bridge, on the southern side of Soussons Down stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.