Cairn with a cist near Lee Moor

This scheduled monument is a cairn containing a cist, one of several Bronze Age burial structures scattered across the western edge of Lee Moor. The cist, a stone-built burial chamber, sits at the heart of the cairn and represents a deliberate, purposeful act of memorial and commemoration by Bronze Age communities on the open moor.

Today the site stands as part of Dartmoor's rich prehistoric heritage, visible within a wider landscape of similar monuments. These cairns mark places where Bronze Age people chose to bury their dead, choosing high moorland ground that remains largely unchanged. The monument sits within a network of archaeological features that speak to sustained human activity and social memory across the moor.