Eight cairns

This scheduled monument comprises eight cairns scattered across Holne Ridge, forming part of a Bronze Age cairn cemetery. These stone structures represent burial mounds built over two thousand years ago, when communities marked their dead across the open moorland. Immediately west of Horn's Cross lies a stone alignment, a linear arrangement of stones whose original purpose remains part of the moor's deeper history.

Visiting this site means walking the high open ground of Holne Ridge where Bronze Age people once looked out over the same landscape. The cairns vary in their state of preservation, some still clearly mounded, others more subtle. Their scattered distribution across the ridge reflects patterns of land use and settlement that shaped Dartmoor long before the historic period. The alignment adds another layer to this palimpsest of ritual and domestic activity.