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This ring cairn is a Bronze Age monument, built as a place of ritual or burial on the high moor. Ring cairns are circular stone structures, typically found across Dartmoor and dating to the second millennium BC. They may have served as burial sites, meeting places, or ceremonial markers for communities living on or moving across the moorland.
Today the cairn sits among the open grassland and heather south west of Little Staple Tor, one of many prehistoric monuments scattered across this part of Dartmoor. Its position offers views across the moor and speaks to the way Bronze Age people used the high ground. The monument is scheduled, recognising its archaeological importance and fragility.
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