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Cairnfield is a Bronze Age cairn and associated length of the Taw Marsh Reave located on Dartmoor in Devon, England. The cairn itself represents a burial monument typical of the Bronze Age period, when such earthen and stone mounds were constructed as funerary structures across the moorland landscape. The adjacent reave, a substantial boundary bank and ditch system, dates to the later Bronze Age and represents the organized division of upland territory into field systems and pastoral enclosures. Together, these monuments provide evidence of Bronze Age settlement patterns and land management practices on Dartmoor during the second and first millennia before the Common Era.
Cairnfield, cairn and a length of the Taw Marsh Reave 830m ESE of Moorland House is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020243. View the official record →
Cairnfield is a Bronze Age cairn and associated length of the Taw Marsh Reave located on Dartmoor in Devon, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020243.
Cairnfield, cairn and a length of the Taw Marsh Reave 830m ESE of Moorland House 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 1020243.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Prehistoric stone hut circle settlement 630m south of Hemstone Rocks (9.9 km), Kerbed cairn and cist 635m south west of The Grey Wethers (10 km), Stone alignment, hut circle settlement, medieval long house and post-medieval farmstead at Assycombe (10.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cairnfield, cairn and a length of the Taw Marsh Reave 830m ESE of Moorland House'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.
Cairnfield, cairn and a length of the Taw Marsh Reave 830m ESE of Moorland House stands on Holsworthy Group, bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.