Chambered cairn 830m south of Buttern

This scheduled monument is a chambered cairn, a type of burial structure built during the Neolithic or Bronze Age by people who lived and farmed on Dartmoor's high ground. The site lies on open moorland south of Buttern, positioned within a landscape that still bears the traces of thousands of years of human settlement and use.

Like other cairns across Dartmoor, this stone monument originally served both a practical and spiritual purpose, marking the resting place of the dead while standing as a visible landmark across the moor. Today it forms part of the complex archaeological record that makes Dartmoor one of England's most significant prehistoric landscapes, rewarding those who walk the open ground with a sense of deep continuity.