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Cairn with a cist on the western edge of Lee Moor is a Bronze Age burial monument consisting of a mound of stone with an internal stone-lined burial chamber. The site represents one of several cairns distributed across this moorland location in Devon, reflecting prehistoric funerary practices of the Bronze Age period. The cist, a rectangular stone-built chamber, would have functioned as a repository for human remains, typical of barrow construction in the southwestern peninsula during the second millennium BCE. Such monuments are significant indicators of Bronze Age settlement patterns and burial customs across Dartmoor and the surrounding upland regions of Devon.
Cairn with a cist, one of several on the western edge of Lee Moor is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012051. View the official record →
Cairn with a cist on the western edge of Lee Moor is a Bronze Age burial monument consisting of a mound of stone with an internal stone-lined burial chamber. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012051.
Cairn with a cist, one of several on the western edge of Lee Moor 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 1012051.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Prehistoric barrow cemetery on Crownhill Down, 900m north of Drakelands Farm (4.6 km), Barrow cemetery on western slope of Crownhill Down (4.8 km), Round barrow 950yds (868m) N of Drakeland Corner (5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cairn with a cist, one of several on the western edge of Lee Moor'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 with a cist, one of several on the western edge of Lee Moor stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.