One of five cairns

This cairn is part of a small cairnfield scattered across the north eastern slope of White Hill, likely built during the Bronze Age when such stone monuments dotted Dartmoor's high ground. Five cairns make up this outlying group, markers of ancient activity and burial or ritual practice on the moor.

Today the cairn stands among heather and grass, a humble pile of stones that has weathered thousands of years. Visitors walking the moorland slopes will find it a quiet reminder of Dartmoor's deep past, when people lived and died on these exposed hills and left their presence in stone.

Historic England listed designation: One of five cairns forming an outlying part of a cairnfield on the north eastern slope of White Hill