Cairn near Ringmoor Cottage

This cairn sits on open moorland south-east of Ringmoor Cottage, a scheduled monument from the Bronze Age. Like many of Dartmoor's stone cairns, it likely marked a burial or held ritual significance for the communities who inhabited the high moor in prehistoric times. The cairn remains part of the dense archaeological record of this landscape.

Visitors will find a modest stone mound in the moorland setting, with expansive views typical of the higher Dartmoor plateau. The site is best understood as part of the broader pattern of Bronze Age activity across the moor, where cairns, settlements and field systems tell the story of how people lived on this high ground centuries ago.