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Ring cairn 296m south east of Riddon Brake is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Devon, England. The site comprises a cairn structure characteristic of the later Bronze Age period, positioned within the landscape of south-western England where such burial monuments are distributed across moorland and upland terrain. Ring cairns of this type typically feature a circular stone mound with a central or peripheral ring of stones, reflecting the burial practices and ceremonial conventions of Bronze Age communities. The monument survives as an archaeological record of prehistoric settlement and ritual activity in the Devon landscape, although its current condition and precise dimensions would require site-specific survey documentation for full characterisation.
Ring cairn 296m south east of Riddon Brake is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1021428. View the official record →
Ring cairn 296m south east of Riddon Brake is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Devon, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1021428.
Ring cairn 296m south east of Riddon Brake 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 1021428.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Ring cairn on Holne Ridge 860m north west of Hapstead Ford and 1180m north east of Ryder's Hill (7.5 km), Ringleshutes tinwork (7.6 km), Four cairns on Holne Lee 1140m north west of Greatcombe (7.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Ring cairn 296m south east of Riddon Brake'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.
Ring cairn 296m south east of Riddon Brake stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.