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The Eight Cairns on Holne Ridge is a Bronze Age burial monument comprising a cemetery of eight cairns situated on moorland in Devon. These funerary structures form part of a broader pattern of Bronze Age settlement and burial practice on the elevated terrain of the ridge. Immediately west of Horn's Cross, an ancient barrow, a stone alignment extends the ritual landscape of this archaeological complex, indicating the ceremonial significance of the locality during the Bronze Age. The monument demonstrates the characteristic funerary practices and monumental construction typical of the second millennium BC on Dartmoor and the surrounding Devonian uplands.
Eight cairns forming part of a cairn cemetery on Holne Ridge and a stone alignment immediately west of Horn's Cross is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019273. View the official record →
The Eight Cairns on Holne Ridge is a Bronze Age burial monument comprising a cemetery of eight cairns situated on moorland in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019273.
Eight cairns forming part of a cairn cemetery on Holne Ridge and a stone alignment immediately west of Horn's Cross 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 1019273.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Stone alignment north of Glasscombe Upper Plantation (9.8 km), Cairn near Ball Gate, Corringdon Ball (9.8 km), Cairn above the south-west bank of the East Glaze Brook (9.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Eight cairns forming part of a cairn cemetery on Holne Ridge and a stone alignment immediately west of Horn's Cross'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.
Eight cairns forming part of a cairn cemetery on Holne Ridge and a stone alignment immediately west of Horn's Cross stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.