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One of a scattered group of cairns on the south-west slope of Penn Beacon, this scheduled monument dates to the Bronze Age. These stone burial mounds are among the most enduring traces of prehistoric settlement on Dartmoor, built across the open moorland as communal or family burial places over three thousand years ago.
Today the cairn sits within the working landscape of the moor, part of a wider pattern of Bronze Age monuments that characterize this part of Dartmoor. The site rewards a visit not for dramatic remains but for the sense of continuity it offers, standing on the same slope where ancient people gathered to mark their dead, with views across the moorland that have changed far less than the centuries between then and now.
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