Dartmoor Heritage
Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
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Cairns & Barrows
Cairn and cist, Barn Hill
A cairn 5.7 m across and 0.2 m high with a cist 0.98 m by 0.6 m, its floor level with the ground, on Barn Hill in the Whitchurch Common field system.
Cairns & Barrows
Cairn and cist, Beardown Tors
A flat-topped cairn 5 m across with a kerb on its west side and a north-south cist 1.23 m by 0.65 m, its cover slab shifted to the north-west, on an east slope of Beardown Tors.
Cairns & Barrows
Cairn and cist, Black Down
A round cairn 6 m across and 0.7 m high on Black Down with a damaged cist 0.9 m long, its two end slabs in place and the side stones removed, and a kerb round the north-west edge.
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Cairns & Barrows
Cairn and cist, Grimspound
A cairn 5.6 m across ringed by edge-set slabs up to 0.62 m high, with a cist 1.2 m by 0.55 m partly covered by three slabs, on a saddle between Hookney Tor and King Tor.
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Cairn and cist, Ingra Tor
A cairn 7.6 m across and 0.8 m high with large stones through its surface and a cist 1.24 m by 0.66 m opened by past excavation, below Ingra Tor.
Cairns & Barrows
Cairn cemetery near Blackaton Brook Ford
Bronze Age cairn cemetery and associated earthwork bank in the upland landscape south west of Blackaton Brook Ford.
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Cairn cemetery near Hapstead Ford
A cairn cemetery of five cairns on a high ridge of Holne Lee, 7 to 22.5 m across and up to 1.3 m high, four of them dug into by early investigators.
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Also on Our DartmoorCairn — A Bronze Age cairn standing among Dartmoor's open moorland, marking ancient presence on the high plateau.
