Four cairns near Horn's Cross

This group of four cairns sits on Holne Ridge, part of a Bronze Age cemetery that once served the communities of the high moor. These stone burial mounds are typical of Dartmoor's prehistoric landscape, built over three thousand years ago when the ridge was more intensively settled and used. The cairns are modest in scale but substantial enough to locate on the open moorland.

Walking out to find them, you're following in the footsteps of people whose identity is now lost to time. The cairns form part of the wider pattern of Bronze Age settlement and ritual that marks Dartmoor's uplands. They sit quietly in the landscape, weathered by centuries of moor weather and accessible to anyone willing to cross the open ground.

Historic England listed designation: Four cairns 310m south of Horn's Cross forming part of a cairn cemetery on Holne Ridge