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Cabell Chest Tomb and Structure over Tomb to South of Church of Holy Trinity

Devon

This listed tomb and its associated stone structure represent medieval burial customs in a moorland parish. The chest tomb itself, likely dating to the medieval period, sits to the south of Holy Trinity Church. A stone structure built over or around the tomb in later years suggests changing attitudes to commemoration and the maintenance of graves across centuries.

Visitors will find a modest but enduring feature of the churchyard landscape, grounded in the practical and spiritual concerns of moorland communities. The site offers a quiet reminder of how ordinary people marked their dead, and how those marks have persisted and been reshaped across generations on Dartmoor's fringe.

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Photo: Adrian Platt (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Wikimedia Commons

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