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One of a group of three cairns on Ringmoor Down is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. The cairn forms part of a significant cluster of burial structures on the moorland, reflecting the intensive use of this landscape during the Bronze Age period for ritual and mortuary practices. The monument consists of a stone mound constructed from local granite, typical of contemporary cairn construction on Dartmoor, and represents the funerary traditions of prehistoric communities who inhabited the region.
One of a group of three cairns on Ringmoor Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012087. View the official record →
One of a group of three cairns on Ringmoor Down is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012087.
One of a group of three cairns on Ringmoor Down 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 1012087.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cholwich Town Cross: a wayside cross between Quick Bridge and Tolchmoor Gate (5.6 km), Hut circle 1000yds (915m) E of Coleland Bridge (5.8 km), Barrow cemetery on western slope of Crownhill Down (6.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of One of a group of three cairns on Ringmoor Down'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.
One of a group of three cairns on Ringmoor Down stands on Upper Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Late Devonian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.