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Butterdon Hill stone alignment and cairn is a Bronze Age monument located in Devon, England. The site comprises a stone alignment and an associated cairn, typical of ritual and funerary structures erected during the Bronze Age period. Such alignments and cairns served functions relating to burial practices and ceremonial activity, representing significant investments of labour by prehistoric communities. The monument's survival on Butterdon Hill provides evidence for Bronze Age settlement patterns and land use in the Devon landscape.
Butterdon Hill stone alignment and cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012486. View the official record →
Butterdon Hill stone alignment and cairn is a Bronze Age monument located in Devon, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012486.
Butterdon Hill stone alignment and cairn 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 1012486.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including One of a number of cairns at Black Pool (1.7 km), One of a number of cairns at Black Pool (1.7 km), Cairn near the summit of Western Beacon (2.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Butterdon Hill stone alignment and cairn's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Butterdon Hill stone alignment and cairn stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.