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This cairn lies south of Eylesbarrow Reave, one of Dartmoor's most prominent Bronze Age field boundaries. The cairn itself dates to the Bronze Age, when communities across Dartmoor built burial mounds and ritual monuments across the high moorland. Such cairns often marked significant places in the landscape, serving as burial sites, territorial markers, or focal points for ritual activity.
Today the cairn survives as a low earthwork among the open moorland, visible as a slight raised mound. Its proximity to the reave reflects the complex use of this part of Dartmoor during the Bronze Age, when both linear boundaries and ceremonial sites shaped how people moved through and claimed the landscape. The site sits within one of Dartmoor's most archaeologically rich areas, rewarding walkers with views across central moor.
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Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“Fifty years ago Lydford was one of the most out-of-the-world and wild spots in England.”
Also on Our DartmoorBeatrice Chase — Beatrice Chase was the pen name of Olive Katharine Parr (1874-1955), a novelist and photographer who lived at Venton, near Widecombe-in-the-Moor, and wrote many books on Dartmoor.
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