Ring cairn near Great Nodden

This ring cairn sits on the high ground southwest of Great Nodden, part of the dense scatter of Bronze Age monuments across Dartmoor. Ring cairns are typically ritual or funerary sites, constructed as circular banks of stone sometimes with an internal burial chamber or hearth. Like many cairns on the moor, this one has been shaped by centuries of weathering and use, yet its form remains legible to anyone who walks the open ground here.

The site stands in moorland that has changed little in character since its construction, offering a sense of the Dartmoor landscape as the Bronze Age communities knew it. Today it rewards those who explore the higher moorland carefully, and forms part of the wider pattern of prehistoric settlement that makes this part of Devon archaeologically significant.