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Cairn on Chagford Common 320m west of West Vitifer Mine is a Bronze Age burial monument situated on the upland moorland of Dartmoor in Devon. The cairn survives as a mound of stones typical of funerary monuments from the Bronze Age period, when such structures were constructed to mark and contain burials across the moorland landscape. Its location within the wider archaeological complex of Chagford Common reflects the intensive use of Dartmoor's higher ground during the Bronze Age for ritual and funerary purposes. The monument's proximity to the West Vitifer tin mine indicates its position within an area of long-term human exploitation and settlement on the moor.
Cairn on Chagford Common 320m west of West Vitifer Mine is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020040. View the official record →
Cairn on Chagford Common 320m west of West Vitifer Mine is a Bronze Age burial monument situated on the upland moorland of Dartmoor in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020040.
Cairn on Chagford Common 320m west of West Vitifer Mine 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 1020040.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cairn on Corndon Tor (8.6 km), Prehistoric enclosed settlement known as Outer Huccaby Ring and associated irregular aggregate field system (8.7 km), Yar Tor stone row and adjacent cist (8.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cairn on Chagford Common 320m west of West Vitifer Mine'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.
Cairn on Chagford Common 320m west of West Vitifer Mine stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.