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Ring cairn 920m south west of Little Staple Tor is a Bronze Age burial monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. The structure comprises a roughly circular cairn of stone, characteristic of ring cairn forms found across the moor, and dates to the second millennium BC. Such cairns typically served as communal or individual burial monuments and represent significant evidence of Bronze Age funerary practice and settlement patterns on Dartmoor. The site is recorded on the National Heritage List for England under entry 1020013.
Ring cairn 920m south west of Little Staple Tor is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020013. View the official record →
Ring cairn 920m south west of Little Staple Tor is a Bronze Age burial monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020013.
Ring cairn 920m south west of Little Staple 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 1020013.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Settlement on Wigford Down (10 km), Hut circles W of Wigford Down China Clay Works (10.2 km), Four round barrows on Wigford Down (10.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Ring cairn 920m south west of Little Staple Tor's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Ring cairn 920m south west of Little Staple Tor stands on Teign Valley Group, bedrock that formed in the Namurian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.