Ring cairn near Cawsand Beacon

This ring cairn sits on the summit of Cawsand Hill as part of a Bronze Age cairn cemetery. Ring cairns, with their distinctive circular stone kerbs, likely served ritual or burial purposes for the communities who worked and lived on the high moor thousands of years ago. The site is a scheduled monument, protected for its archaeological importance.

Today the cairn is a modest stone circle on open moorland, part of the landscape that shows how densely the Bronze Age peoples used Dartmoor's higher ground. Walking here, you encounter the same views and exposed terrain that these ancient people knew, and the cairn sits among other burial monuments that map the story of human settlement on the moor.

Historic England listed designation: Ring cairn 140m north east of Cawsand Beacon forming part of a cairn cemetery on the summit of Cawsand Hill