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One of two cairns north-east of Harford Moor Gate is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. The cairn is a burial mound constructed from stones gathered from the surrounding moorland, characteristic of Dartmoor's extensive Bronze Age cemetery landscape. As part of a paired cairn group, it reflects the settlement and burial practices of Bronze Age communities who inhabited the moorland uplands during the second millennium BCE. The monument survives as an earthwork and stone feature of archaeological significance to understanding prehistoric activity on Dartmoor.
One of two cairns north-east of Harford Moor Gate is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012462. View the official record →
One of two cairns north-east of Harford Moor Gate is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012462.
One of two cairns north-east of Harford Moor Gate 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 1012462.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including One of a number of cairns at Black Pool (1.9 km), One of a number of cairns at Black Pool (2.1 km), Cairn near the summit of Western Beacon (2.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of One of two cairns north-east of Harford Moor Gate'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 two cairns north-east of Harford Moor Gate stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.