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Ring cairn 296m south east of Riddon Brake
Devon
This ring cairn sits on the high moorland south east of Riddon Brake, a scheduled monument from the Bronze Age. Ring cairns are stone circles built around a central burial or ceremonial space, and this one is part of the dense archaeological landscape that covers Dartmoor's plateaus. The monument reflects a period of sustained settlement on the moor, when communities built to last and marked their dead with stone.
Today the cairn remains as it has for thousands of years, a low stone ring visible among the heath and grass. Visiting means walking out onto open moorland with views across the plateau. The site sits within a wider scatter of Bronze Age remains, a reminder that these uplands were once home to people who knew this landscape intimately.
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