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Four cairns 560m east of Hapstead Ford and 1660m east of Ryder's Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument forming part of a cairn cemetery in the Mardle Valley, Devon. These ring cairns represent a significant cluster of funerary monuments characteristic of upland Bronze Age settlement and ritual practice in the region. The cairns comprise stone-built mounds constructed over cremation burials, typical of the later Bronze Age period when such cemetery complexes served as focal points for multiple generations of a community. The survival of this cairn group contributes to understanding Bronze Age burial practices and the use of upland landscapes in Devon during the second millennium BCE.
Four cairns 560m east of Hapstead Ford and 1660m east of Ryder's Hill, forming part of a cairn cemetery in the Mardle Valley is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019270. View the official record →
Four cairns 560m east of Hapstead Ford and 1660m east of Ryder's Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument forming part of a cairn cemetery in the Mardle Valley, Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019270.
Four cairns 560m east of Hapstead Ford and 1660m east of Ryder's Hill, forming part of a cairn cemetery in the Mardle Valley 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 1019270.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Spurrell's Cross (9.5 km), Spurrell's Cross stone alignment and cairn. (9.6 km), Cairn south of Spurrell's Cross, Ugborough Moor (9.6 km).
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Four cairns 560m east of Hapstead Ford and 1660m east of Ryder's Hill, forming part of a cairn cemetery in the Mardle Valley stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.