Cairn

This cairn is part of a cairnfield, a scattered grouping of burial mounds that speaks to Bronze Age settlement and ritual on Dartmoor. Built from stone gathered on the moor itself, such cairns were raised over the graves of the dead, and their presence across the landscape suggests communities who knew these hills well and marked their territory with monuments that have endured for over three thousand years.

Longstone Hill sits in the heart of the moor, and walking among the cairns here, you encounter the physical evidence of ancient life in the round. The stones are weathered and some are now turf-grown, but they remain legible to anyone who takes time to read the landscape. These monuments are protected as scheduled remains and are best appreciated by those who value Dartmoor's deep history as part of what makes the moor distinctive.

Historic England listed designation: Cairn forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill