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A platform cairn 240m NNE of Cawsand Beacon forming part of a cairn cemetery on the summit of Cawsand Hill
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This platform cairn sits on the exposed summit of Cawsand Hill as part of a cairn cemetery, a Bronze Age burial landscape that speaks to the importance of this high moorland in prehistory. Platform cairns typically supported timber structures or burial chambers and date from the early to middle Bronze Age, when Dartmoor's uplands were actively settled and used for ritual purposes.
Today the site remains in its moorland setting, weathered and modest, yet part of a larger pattern of ancient activity across the hilltop. Visitors to this exposed location will find themselves on open moorland with wide views, standing among the scattered remains of a people who chose these high places for their dead.
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