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This scheduled monument is a cairn, a burial or ceremonial mound built from piled stones. It dates to the Bronze Age, when Dartmoor was more densely settled than it is today. The cairn sits on open moorland south of Mill Corner, part of a wider scatter of prehistoric remains across this part of Dartmoor.
Today it appears as a low stony mound in the landscape, the kind of feature that becomes easier to spot once you know to look for it. Cairns like this one are among the most enduring traces of Dartmoor's earliest inhabitants, and walking among them connects you directly to thousands of years of human presence on the moor.
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