Round cairn and later tin prospecting pits 615m ESE of Down Tor

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History & significance

Round cairn and later tin prospecting pits 615m ESE of Down Tor is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. The site comprises a round cairn, a funerary structure built from stones heaped over a burial or cremation, which represents the primary archaeological feature of prehistoric date. The cairn has subsequently been affected by tin prospecting activity, evidenced by pits dug into and around the monument during the medieval or later period when tin extraction became economically important on Dartmoor. The survival of both the original burial cairn and the traces of subsequent exploitation make this a palimpsestic landscape feature recording multiple phases of human activity and land use across several millennia.

Round cairn and later tin prospecting pits 615m ESE of Down Tor is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009089. View the official record →

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