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Coaxial fields, prehistoric settlements and cairns on Halshanger and Horridge Commons is a Bronze Age field system forming part of the Rippon Tor coaxial field complex on Dartmoor in Devon. The monument comprises relict agricultural divisions, settlement remains, and burial cairns dating to the second millennium BC, representing a significant example of organised Bronze Age land use and settlement patterning. The coaxial field system demonstrates the systematic division of landscape for pastoral and possibly arable exploitation during prehistory, with the associated cairns indicating contemporary funerary practice and occupation intensity. This archaeological landscape preserves evidence of early Bronze Age territorial organisation and social structure across the moorland environment.
Coaxial fields, prehistoric settlements and cairns on Halshanger and Horridge Commons, forming part of the Rippon Tor coaxial field system is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019603. View the official record →
Coaxial fields, prehistoric settlements and cairns on Halshanger and Horridge Commons is a Bronze Age field system forming part of the Rippon Tor coaxial field complex on Dartmoor in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019603.
Coaxial fields, prehistoric settlements and cairns on Halshanger and Horridge Commons, forming part of the Rippon Tor coaxial field system 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 1019603.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Earthworks in Boro' Wood (3.5 km), Two cairns at Ausewell Rocks (3.7 km), Pound at Newbridge (5.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Coaxial fields, prehistoric settlements and cairns on Halshanger and Horridge Commons, forming part of the Rippon Tor coaxial field system'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.
Coaxial fields, prehistoric settlements and cairns on Halshanger and Horridge Commons, forming part of the Rippon Tor coaxial field system stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.