Ring cairn near Branscombe's Loaf

This ring cairn sits on the exposed summit of Corn Ridge as part of a cemetery that speaks to Bronze Age use of Dartmoor's high ground. Ring cairns, with their characteristic circular bank and ditch, typically mark burials or ritual gatherings from the later Bronze Age. The site forms part of a cluster of monuments on this ridge, evidence of how communities valued this high place for their dead.

Today, the cairn remains as a low earthwork feature in the moorland, part of the wider story of how people shaped and used Dartmoor thousands of years ago. The summit location offers wide views across the moor and the surrounding landscape, a place that would have held significance then as it does now for those who walk here.

Historic England listed designation: Ring cairn 120m west of Branscombe's Loaf forming part of a cemetery on Corn Ridge summit