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Cairn on Hameldown Tor is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on high moorland in Devon. The cairn consists of a substantial heap of stones that would originally have contained one or more burial deposits, typical of Bronze Age commemorative practices across the South West. Its position on Hameldown Tor, commanding views across Dartmoor, reflects the deliberate siting of such monuments in prominent landscape locations during the second millennium BCE. The monument survives as a notable example of Bronze Age material culture and continues to form part of the dense distribution of prehistoric monuments across Dartmoor's upland terrain.
Cairn on Hameldown Tor is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1003194. View the official record →
Cairn on Hameldown Tor is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on high moorland in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1003194.
Cairn on Hameldown 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 1003194.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Pound at Newbridge (9.3 km), Ring cairn on Holne Moor 430m south west of Seale's Stoke (10 km), Eight cairns forming part of a cairn cemetery on Holne Ridge and a stone alignment immediately west of Horn's Cross (10 km).
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