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The two cairns on the summit of Water Hill, located 450 metres north west of Warren House Inn on Dartmoor in Devon, are Bronze Age funerary monuments. These barrows represent the ritual landscape of the second and early first millennium before Christ, when communities across the moor constructed stone-built burial cairns to commemorate their dead. The monuments consist of substantial stone heaps which, though subject to degradation over more than three millennia, retain sufficient structure to demonstrate their original function as burial mounds. Such cairns are characteristic of upland Bronze Age settlement patterns and form part of the dense distribution of ceremonial and sepulchral features that define Dartmoor's archaeological significance.
Two cairns on the summit of Water Hill 450m north west of Warren House Inn is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019225. View the official record →
The two cairns on the summit of Water Hill, located 450 metres north west of Warren House Inn on Dartmoor in Devon, are Bronze Age funerary monuments. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019225.
Two cairns on the summit of Water Hill 450m north west of Warren House Inn 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 1019225.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Part of the Dartmeet coaxial field system and other archaeological remains on Holne Moor west and north west of Venford Reservoir (9.4 km), Down Ridge stone circle and outlying standing stone 570m and 650m south of Forest Inn (9.4 km), Stone hut circle on Down Ridge 480m south west of Saddle Bridge (9.7 km).
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