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A round cairn on White Ridge lying 570m north of the source of Stannon Brook
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This round cairn sits on White Ridge in the upland heart of Dartmoor, a modest but enduring marker of Bronze Age burial practice. The site commands open moorland where views stretch across the high plateau, and its location reflects the way prehistoric communities used Dartmoor's ridges and watersheds as places of significance.
Today the cairn remains as it has for thousands of years, a simple stone heap on the moor. Walking to it means crossing open country where the landscape itself tells as much a story as the monument. It is a Scheduled Monument, protected for its archaeological importance and as evidence of how Dartmoor was inhabited and used in the distant past.
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