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Cairn on Chagford Common 320m west of West Vitifer Mine
Devon
This cairn lies on Chagford Common, a short distance west of West Vitifer Mine. The monument belongs to the Bronze Age, when such burial mounds and ritual markers were built across Dartmoor's high moorland. The cairn would once have been more prominent than it appears today, its stones gathered from the surrounding granite landscape.
Visitors will find a modest stony mound on open moorland, typical of many such monuments scattered across Dartmoor. Its location near the later tin workings shows how different periods of human activity have left their mark on the same ground. The site offers a quiet encounter with Bronze Age Dartmoor, part of the dense archaeological record that makes this moor distinctive.
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