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Cairn 690m south west of White Barrow
Devon
This scheduled monument is a Bronze Age cairn, one of hundreds that dot Dartmoor's high ground. Built as a burial marker or ceremonial monument, it belongs to a dense cluster of prehistoric remains that cluster around the ridge and plateau country of central Dartmoor. The cairn sits in open moorland where the landscape itself tells the story of how this area has been used and valued across thousands of years.
Today it is a low stone mound, weathered and settled into the peat and grass. Walking here puts you among some of Dartmoor's most characteristic terrain, where Bronze Age builders chose high, exposed ground to mark their dead or mark the land itself. The site carries the quiet authority of ancient places that have watched the moor change around them.
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