Round cairn near Cawsand Beacon

Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1010771) describes a round cairn on the summit ridge of Cawsand or Cosdon Hill, part of a cemetery of at least two round cairns, two ring cairns and one platform cairn. The mound is 7 metres across and up to 0.6 metres high. A hollow in the middle shows an early excavation and is faced on two sides with large slabs, which may be the cist that Falcon described in 1905 as 4 feet long by 2 feet wide. A ring of edge-set stones round it may be an inner kerb, now mostly buried, and two stones on edge on the east side of the mound may mark a second cist. It lies in the parish of South Tawton, about 1.4 km south-east of Ladybrook Tor and 2.4 km south-west of South Zeal.

Sources: Historic England list entry 1010771, which cites Butler, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol 2 (1990), pages 206 to 207, Falcon, 'Dartmoor: A Note on Graves' (Devonshire Association Transactions, vol 37, 1905), page 459, and the Devon County Sites and Monuments Register (SX69SW84, 1986).

• Period: Bronze Age
• Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1010771)
• Grid reference: SX 6372 9165 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)

Historic England listed designation: A round cairn 190m north east of Cawsand Beacon forming part of a cairn cemetery on the summit of Cawsand Hill