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Round cairn cemetery on Dunkery Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument located on Exmoor in Somerset. The site comprises multiple round cairns arranged as a cemetery, representing a significant funerary landscape from the prehistoric period. These stone-built mounds served as burial structures for Bronze Age communities, and their clustering suggests repeated use of the location across generations. The monument survives as an important archaeological record of Bronze Age mortuary practices and settlement patterns on the Exmoor uplands.
Round cairn cemetery on Dunkery Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020930. View the official record →
Round cairn cemetery on Dunkery Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument located on Exmoor in Somerset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020930.
Round cairn cemetery on Dunkery Hill 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 1020930.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Enclosure and associated outworks on Staddon Hill (5.8 km), Road Castle (6.9 km), Bowl barrow on Lype Hill, 750m ENE of Heath Pault Cross (6.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round cairn cemetery on Dunkery Hill'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 cemetery on Dunkery Hill stands on Middle Devonian (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Middle Devonian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.