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Round cairn 270m west of Great Nodden
Devon
This round cairn sits on the western slopes near Great Nodden, a modest but enduring trace of Bronze Age settlement and burial practice on Dartmoor. Like many of the moor's cairns, it likely served as a burial monument or ritual marker, built by communities who knew this landscape intimately across many centuries.
Today it survives as a low stony mound in the open moorland, part of the dense scatter of prehistoric monuments that gives Dartmoor its distinctive character. The site is a scheduled monument, protected for its archaeological importance and as a tangible link to the Bronze Age people who shaped the moor's story.
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