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Cairn with a cist south-west of Drizzlecombe Stone Alignments is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. The site comprises a burial cairn containing a stone burial cist, positioned in proximity to the nearby Drizzlecombe Stone Alignments, a significant ritual landscape of the same period. The cairn represents the burial practices characteristic of Bronze Age communities in the south-western uplands, wherein stone-built cists housed cremated or inhumed human remains beneath constructed earthen and stone mounds. The monument survives as part of the archaeological complex demonstrating the concentrated ritual and funerary use of the Drizzlecombe area during the Bronze Age.
Cairn with a cist south-west of Drizzlecombe Stone Alignments is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010656. View the official record →
Cairn with a cist south-west of Drizzlecombe Stone Alignments is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010656.
Cairn with a cist south-west of Drizzlecombe Stone Alignments 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 1010656.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Prehistoric barrow cemetery on Crownhill Down, 900m north of Drakelands Farm (7.1 km), Barrow cemetery on western slope of Crownhill Down (7.2 km), Round barrow 950yds (868m) N of Drakeland Corner (7.4 km).
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