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Round cairn 340m south-west of White Hill summit is a Bronze Age burial monument forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery in Devon. The site consists of a circular mound of stones constructed during the Bronze Age, representing a typical funerary structure of the second millennium BCE. As part of a wider cairn cemetery, it demonstrates the clustering of burial monuments that characterises Bronze Age mortuary practice in the south-west peninsula. The monument remains a significant archaeological record of prehistoric settlement patterns and ritual behaviour in this region of Devon.
Round cairn 340m south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011478. View the official record →
Round cairn 340m south-west of White Hill summit is a Bronze Age burial monument forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1011478.
Round cairn 340m south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery 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 1011478.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cairn and cist on Barn Hill, 840m north east of Moortown Farm (9.1 km), Length of reave 290m north of Feather Tor, forming part of a coaxial field system on Whitchurch Common (9.3 km), Cairn and cist 150m north of Vixen Tor (9.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round cairn 340m south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery'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 340m south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery stands on Holsworthy Group, bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.