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Cairn and cist 430m north east of Grimspound is a Bronze Age burial monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. The site comprises a cairn, a mound of stones constructed as a funerary monument, within which is situated a cist, a stone-built burial chamber typical of Bronze Age funerary practice. The monument dates to the Bronze Age period, when such cairns with integrated burial chambers served as repositories for the dead and represented significant investments of communal labour on the upland landscape. Its location in proximity to Grimspound, itself an important Bronze Age settlement, situates this burial monument within a meaningful archaeological context of Bronze Age occupation and organisation of the Dartmoor plateau.
Cairn and cist 430m north east of Grimspound is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020009. View the official record →
Cairn and cist 430m north east of Grimspound is a Bronze Age burial monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020009.
Cairn and cist 430m north east of Grimspound 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 1020009.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Holne Chase Castle (9.5 km), Prehistoric fields and settlements north east of Venford Reservoir forming part of the Dartmeet coaxial field system (9.8 km), Pound at Newbridge (9.9 km).
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