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Four round barrows on Wigford Down
Devon
These four round barrows sit on Wigford Down as a cluster of Bronze Age burial monuments, likely dating to the second millennium BCE. Round barrows were communal or high-status graves, often built by families or communities over generations. On Dartmoor, where hundreds survive, they mark places of significance in the ancient landscape and offer insight into prehistoric settlement patterns and beliefs about the afterlife.
Today the barrows are earthworks, visible as low mounds on the moorland. A scheduled monument, the site reflects the enduring importance of these upland areas to people of the Bronze Age. Walking here, you stand among monuments that have shaped the moor's character for over four thousand years.
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