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This scheduled monument consists of a cairn, a mound of stones built over a cist, a stone-lined burial chamber. Such monuments are common across Dartmoor and date to the Bronze Age, when the high moor was more densely settled and farmed than it is today. The cist would have held the remains of one or more individuals, along with grave goods now long since removed or decayed.
Today the site sits among open moorland, part of the landscape of stone monuments that marks Bronze Age activity across Dartmoor. Visitors exploring this remote corner of the moor on foot will find a landscape shaped by thousands of years of human use, with cairns and cists scattered across the high ground as reminders of the communities who lived and died here.
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