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Round cairn 170m north of the Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar on Cox Tor
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This round cairn stands on the moor north of Cox Tor's Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar, a survivor of Bronze Age burial and ceremonial practice on Dartmoor. Like many cairns across the high moor, it was built as a monument to the dead, though time and moorland conditions have weathered it considerably. The site sits within a landscape densely marked by prehistoric settlement and ritual, where such structures cluster and scatter across the granite uplands.
Visitors who make their way here will find a modest but real presence on the open moor, worth the walk for those exploring Cox Tor itself or tracing the archaeology of this part of Dartmoor. The cairn rewards patient looking, and the moorland setting offers the wider context in which such monuments made sense to Bronze Age communities.
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