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Three round cairns 420m south-west of White Hill summit is a Bronze Age funerary monument forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery in Devon, England. The cairns are characteristic examples of the burial structures erected during the Bronze Age, a period when such ring-constructed mounds served as communal or individual sepulchral monuments across the upland regions of south-western England. The cemetery of which these three cairns form a part demonstrates the sustained ritual use of the landscape during prehistory, with multiple cairns distributed across the locality indicating repeated funerary activity over an extended period. The site remains largely in its original morphological form, preserving evidence of Bronze Age mortuary practices and settlement patterns in the Devonian landscape.
Three round cairns 420m south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of White Hill round cairn cemetery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011433. View the official record →
Three round cairns 420m south-west of White Hill summit is a Bronze Age funerary monument forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery in Devon, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1011433.
Three round cairns 420m south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of White Hill round cairn cemetery 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 1011433.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cairn and cist on Barn Hill, 840m north east of Moortown Farm (9.1 km), Length of reave 290m north of Feather Tor, forming part of a coaxial field system on Whitchurch Common (9.3 km), Cairn and cist 150m north of Vixen Tor (9.3 km).
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