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Ring cairn 660m north west of Little Links Tor is a prehistoric burial monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. The site comprises a cairn with a distinctive ring-ditch formation, characteristic of Bronze Age funerary practices in the south-west of England. Such monuments typically date to the second millennium BCE and served as focal points for ritual and burial activity within their communities. The ring cairn form, with its encircling ditch, represents a particular tradition of monument construction found across the upland areas of Devon and Cornwall during this period.
Ring cairn 660m north west of Little Links Tor is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007644. View the official record →
Ring cairn 660m north west of Little Links Tor is a prehistoric burial monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007644.
Ring cairn 660m north west of Little Links Tor 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 1007644.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Stone hut circle 500m north of Wedlake Farm (9.5 km), Seven stone hut circles, a length of field boundary and a clearance cairn forming part of the settlement on Langstone Moor (9.7 km), Prehistoric irregular aggregate field system, stone hut circles and a medieval field on the south-west slope of White Tor (9.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Ring cairn 660m north west of Little Links Tor'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 660m north west of Little Links Tor stands on Holsworthy Group, bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.