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Group of three closely spaced cairns on the south-western brow of Western Beacon is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. The three cairns are positioned together on elevated moorland, characteristic of the burial practices of the Bronze Age communities who inhabited this region during the second millennium BC. Such cairn groups typically served as burial markers and ritual focal points for the dispersed settlements of Bronze Age Devon. The monument survives as evidence of prehistoric settlement patterns and funerary practices on Dartmoor, where numerous similar cairn groups remain distributed across the upland landscape.
Group of three closely spaced cairns on the south-western brow of Western Beacon is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012229. View the official record →
Group of three closely spaced cairns on the south-western brow of Western Beacon is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012229.
Group of three closely spaced cairns on the south-western brow of Western Beacon 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 1012229.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cairn on the southern brow of Western Beacon (0.1 km), Cairn near the summit of Western Beacon (0.1 km), Stone alignment and cairn south-east of Western Beacon (0.5 km).
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