Cairn near Raddick Hill

This cairn forms part of a cairnfield, a cluster of burial monuments built during the Bronze Age when Dartmoor's high ground was actively settled and used for ritual purposes. The cairn itself is a mound of stone, typical of the hundreds that still dot the moor, marking graves or territorial significance in a landscape now open and windswept.

Today the site sits in characteristic moorland terrain, giving a tangible sense of how Bronze Age communities understood and inhabited this high country. The cairnfield context shows these were not isolated monuments but part of a structured ritual and burial landscape that shaped how people lived on Dartmoor thousands of years ago.

Historic England listed designation: Cairn 560m south-west of Raddick Hill summit forming part of a cairnfield