Round cairn on Long Ridge 800m north east of Teignhead Farm

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History & significance

Round cairn on Long Ridge 800m north east of Teignhead Farm is a Bronze Age funerary monument situated on Dartmoor in Devon. The cairn comprises a circular mound of stones, typical of burial structures erected during the Bronze Age period, when such monuments served as repositories for cremated remains and grave goods. Its location on the high moorland of Long Ridge is characteristic of Bronze Age settlement and burial patterns in this region, where such cairns are frequently encountered as scattered remains across the landscape. The monument represents an important archaeological record of Bronze Age mortuary practice and the use of Dartmoor during the second and early first millennia before the Common Era.

Round cairn on Long Ridge 800m north east of Teignhead Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017982. View the official record →

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