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Round cairn 270 metres west of Great Nodden is a scheduled monument on the upland margins of Devon, where the underlying bedrock of Holsworthy Group mudstone, siltstone and sandstone offers a stable foundation for Bronze Age construction. The cairn rises as a mounded earthwork across approximately 0.04 hectares of protected land, positioned at grid reference SX 53613 87397 where the natural topography provides views across the local landscape. Protected by Historic England under reference 1007647, the monument survives as a testament to prehistoric burial practice in this moorland setting.
Round cairns of this type typically date to the Bronze Age, when communities deposited cremated remains or inhumations within stone and earth mounds, often accompanied by pottery, flint and metalwork. The specific geology of the Holsworthy Group strata would have provided locally available stone for the cairn's construction, with any nearby cleared land offering burial vistas familiar to Bronze Age communities. Though subject to centuries of erosion and agricultural activity, the scheduled designation protects the cairn from further disturbance and ensures the preservation of archaeological evidence contained within its earthwork structure.
Round cairn 270m west of Great Nodden is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007647. View the official record →
Round cairn 270 metres west of Great Nodden is a scheduled monument on the upland margins of Devon, where the underlying bedrock of Holsworthy Group mudstone, siltstone and sandstone offers a stable foundation for Bronze Age construction. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007647.
Round cairn 270m west of Great Nodden 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 1007647.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Stone hut circle 500m north of Wedlake Farm (9.5 km), Prehistoric irregular aggregate field system, stone hut circles and a medieval field on the south-west slope of White Tor (9.6 km), Enclosed stone hut circle settlement on the south slope of White Tor (9.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round cairn 270m west of Great Nodden'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.
Round cairn 270m west of Great Nodden stands on Holsworthy Group, bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.