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Stone alignment and terminal cairn with a retaining kerb on Ringmoor Down is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. The site comprises a linear arrangement of stones terminating in a cairn, the latter retained by a kerb of stones, representing a characteristic form of prehistoric ritual monument from the second millennium BCE. Such alignments are thought to have served ceremonial or processional functions connected to burial practices and the veneration of the dead. The monument survives as a substantial archaeological record of Bronze Age activity on the high moorland landscape of Devon.
Stone alignment and terminal cairn with a retaining kerb on Ringmoor Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012246. View the official record →
Stone alignment and terminal cairn with a retaining kerb on Ringmoor Down is a Bronze Age funerary monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012246.
Stone alignment and terminal cairn with a retaining kerb on Ringmoor Down 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 1012246.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Prehistoric barrow cemetery on Crownhill Down, 900m north of Drakelands Farm (6.1 km), Round barrow 950yds (868m) N of Drakeland Corner (6.5 km), Boringdon Camp hillfort and associated remains (6.6 km).
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