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Stone alignment and terminal cairn with a retaining kerb on Ringmoor Down

England
List entry 1012246
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1012246
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.73 hectares
Grid reference
SX 56368 65950
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

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 →

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What is Stone alignment and terminal cairn with a retaining kerb on Ringmoor Down?

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.

Who is responsible for protecting Stone alignment and terminal cairn with a retaining kerb on Ringmoor Down?

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.

What other scheduled monuments are near Stone alignment and terminal cairn with a retaining kerb on Ringmoor Down?

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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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

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
Deer park and rabbit warren at Newnham Park
7.4 km
Post-medieval deer park, medieval fishpond, 18th century triumphal arch and a 19th century lead mine, ore works and smelt mill at Boringdon Park
8.3 km
Plympton Priory
10.1 km
Lee Moor Tramway Bridge
10.1 km
Eggbuckland Keep
10.1 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Stone alignment and terminal cairn with a retaining kerb on Ringmoor Down

Stone alignment and terminal cairn with a retaining kerb on Ringmoor Down stands on Upper Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Late Devonian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.

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