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Round cairn 250m south east of Winter Tor

England
List entry 1017873
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1017873
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.05 hectares
Grid reference
SX 61102 91335
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Round cairn 250m south east of Winter Tor is a Bronze Age burial monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. The structure consists of a circular mound of stones typical of cairn construction during the second and early first millennia BC. Such cairns served as communal or individual burial deposits and are among the most numerous surviving monuments of the Bronze Age on Dartmoor. The site's survival on the moorland landscape makes it an important archaeological record of prehistoric mortuary practices and settlement patterns in south-west England.

Round cairn 250m south east of Winter Tor is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017873. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Round cairn 250m south east of Winter Tor?

Round cairn 250m south east of Winter 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 1017873.

Who is responsible for protecting Round cairn 250m south east of Winter Tor?

Round cairn 250m south east of Winter 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 1017873.

What other scheduled monuments are near Round cairn 250m south east of Winter Tor?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two prehistoric settlements 1280m SSW of The Grey Wethers (9.5 km), A round cairn on White Ridge lying 570m north of the source of Stannon Brook (10 km), Three agglomerated enclosures, a round cairn and part of the Stannon block field system lying within Great Stannon Newtake (10.2 km).

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Overview
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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
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Literature
The books, county histories, charters and archives that mention this place, quoted with their sources.
Legal
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Two prehistoric settlements 1280m SSW of The Grey Wethers
9.5 km
A round cairn on White Ridge lying 570m north of the source of Stannon Brook
10 km
Three agglomerated enclosures, a round cairn and part of the Stannon block field system lying within Great Stannon Newtake
10.2 km
Tinners' building in Great Stannon Newtake, 810m north west of Stannon Tor
10.3 km
Two stone hut circles 1000m north of Standon Down
10.4 km
Two stone hut circles 450m SSE of Ger Tor
10.7 km
Stone alignment and cairn 470m east of Stannon Brook source
10.7 km
Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement and associated fields north of Standon Down
10.7 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Round cairn 250m south east of Winter Tor

Round cairn 250m south east of Winter Tor stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.

The wider landscape

Around Round cairn 250m south east of Winter Tor

ExeterRoman town · ~19.1 miles
Domesday entry for Belstone, Devon →
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