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Cairn adjacent to the south side of Eylesbarrow Reave
Devon
This cairn sits adjacent to Eylesbarrow Reave, one of Dartmoor's most distinctive Bronze Age landscape features. Reaves are long, straight banks that divide the moor into land units, built during the second millennium BC when Dartmoor supported a thriving farming population. The cairn may have served as a marker point along this significant boundary, or as a burial or ceremonial site in its own right.
Today the cairn and reave are visible as earthworks in the moor, part of the dense network of prehistoric field systems and monuments that make Dartmoor an exceptional archaeological landscape. Walking here gives a tangible sense of how Bronze Age communities organised and used the high ground, a pattern largely forgotten for thousands of years before the moor's moorland character took hold.
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