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Round cairn 580m south of Horn's Cross is a Bronze Age burial monument forming part of a cairn cemetery distributed across Holne Ridge in Devon. The cairn is a circular mound constructed from stone, characteristic of funerary practice during the Bronze Age when such structures served as communal or individual burial sites. Its position within a larger cemetery indicates concentrated funerary activity on the ridge during the second millennium BCE, reflecting organised ritual and burial traditions of Bronze Age communities in the South West. The monument survives as a significant archaeological indicator of prehistoric settlement patterns and mortuary practices on Dartmoor's fringes.
Round cairn 580m south of Horn's Cross forming part of a cairn cemetery on Holne Ridge is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020186. View the official record →
Round cairn 580m south of Horn's Cross is a Bronze Age burial monument forming part of a cairn cemetery distributed across Holne Ridge in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020186.
Round cairn 580m south of Horn's Cross forming part of a cairn cemetery on Holne Ridge 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 1020186.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including The northern of three stone hut circles south west of Corringdon Leat, Corringdon Ball (9.7 km), Stone hut circle south west of Corringdon Ball (9.7 km), Two cairns south-east of the stone alignment south-west of Glasscombe Corner (9.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round cairn 580m south of Horn's Cross forming part of a cairn cemetery on Holne Ridge's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Round cairn 580m south of Horn's Cross forming part of a cairn cemetery on Holne Ridge stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.