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Three cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill is a Bronze Age ritual and funerary monument located on the Devon moors. The cairnfield comprises multiple stone burial mounds constructed during the Bronze Age, a period when such monuments were erected across the moorland landscapes of southwest England as communal or family burial sites. The three cairns that form the designated part of this larger cemetery represent the characteristic round barrow form of Bronze Age funerary practice, constructed from stones gathered from the surrounding moorland. These monuments contribute to the archaeological understanding of Bronze Age settlement and burial patterns in Devon and reflect the intensive use of marginal moorland for ritual and mortuary purposes during this prehistoric period.
Three cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010583. View the official record →
Three cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill is a Bronze Age ritual and funerary monument located on the Devon moors. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010583.
Three cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone 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 1010583.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Stone hut circle settlement and enclosures 970m east of Ger Tor (8.3 km), Stone hut circle and field-plots 100m east of Ger Tor (8.4 km), Enclosure 1250m NNW of Standon Down (8.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Three cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Three cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill stands on Holsworthy Group, bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.