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Southern White Hill cairnfield is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. The site comprises a collection of stone cairns distributed across moorland terrain, representing a significant concentration of burial monuments from the second millennium BC. These structures reflect the funerary practices and settlement patterns of Bronze Age communities in the southwest of England, and their survival on the exposed moorland provides important evidence for understanding prehistoric land use and social organisation in this region.
Southern White Hill cairnfield is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008756. View the official record →
Southern White Hill cairnfield is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008756.
Southern White Hill cairnfield 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 1008756.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cairn and cist on Barn Hill, 840m north east of Moortown Farm (9.2 km), A stone circle, standing stone, cairn, recumbent stone and stone alignment on Longash Common (9.4 km), Length of reave 290m north of Feather Tor, forming part of a coaxial field system on Whitchurch Common (9.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Southern White Hill cairnfield'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.
Southern White Hill cairnfield stands on Holsworthy Group, bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.