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Ring cairn 975m south of Sourton Tors is a Bronze Age burial monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. The site comprises a circular arrangement of stones forming a ring cairn, a type of funerary structure characteristic of the Bronze Age period in southwestern England. Ring cairns of this type typically date from the second millennium BC and served as communal or family burial places, often containing cremated remains. The monument's survival on the exposed moorland landscape makes it an important archaeological record of Bronze Age mortuary practices and settlement patterns on Dartmoor.
Ring cairn 975m south of Sourton Tors is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007826. View the official record →
Ring cairn 975m south of Sourton Tors is a Bronze Age burial monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007826.
Ring cairn 975m south of Sourton Tors 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 1007826.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including White Barrow round cairn (9.8 km), Cairn 690m south west of White Barrow (9.9 km), Enclosures and hut circles N of White Tor (10 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Ring cairn 975m south of Sourton Tors'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 975m south of Sourton Tors stands on Holsworthy Group, bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.