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Ring cairn south west of Hound Tor is a Bronze Age burial monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. The cairn consists of a roughly circular arrangement of stones surrounding a central burial deposit, a form characteristic of ring cairns constructed during the Bronze Age. The monument survives as a low stone structure and represents the funerary practices of the prehistoric communities that inhabited Dartmoor during this period. Its location on the moorland landscape reflects the pattern of Bronze Age settlement and burial activity across Dartmoor's upland terrain.
Ring cairn south west of Hound Tor, 215m east of East Lodge is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1016254. View the official record →
Ring cairn south west of Hound 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 1016254.
Ring cairn south west of Hound Tor, 215m east of East Lodge 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 1016254.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Pound at Newbridge (7.9 km), Prehistoric fields and settlements north east of Venford Reservoir forming part of the Dartmeet coaxial field system (8.9 km), Ring cairn on Holne Moor 430m south west of Seale's Stoke (9.5 km).
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