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Four cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Devon, England. The cairns comprise stone burial mounds that form part of a larger cairnfield, a characteristic landscape feature of upland Bronze Age settlement and burial practices. Such cairnfields typically date to the second millennium BCE and represent sustained use of moorland areas for ceremonial and funerary purposes across an extended period. The monument reflects the archaeological evidence for Bronze Age communities' systematic utilisation of Devon's uplands for burial and associated ritual activity.
Four cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010588. View the official record →
Four cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Devon, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010588.
Four cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill 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 1010588.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Stone hut circle settlement and enclosures 970m east of Ger Tor (8.1 km), Enclosure 1250m NNW of Standon Down (8.5 km), An enclosed stone hut circle settlement, three round cairns and a length of reave 650m WSW of Ger Tor (8.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Four cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Four cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill stands on Holsworthy Group, bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.