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Round cairn 550m SSE of Longstone Hill summit
Devon
This scheduled monument is a round cairn, a burial mound built during the Bronze Age when Dartmoor's high ground was more intensively settled and farmed than it is today. The cairn sits in open moorland southeast of Longstone Hill, one of hundreds of similar monuments scattered across Dartmoor that mark ancient graves and ritual sites.
Visitors will find a low stone mound in the characteristic landscape of the high moor: windswept, treeless, and dotted with heather, granite tors, and the remains of prehistoric life. The cairn's modest presence speaks to the continuity of human activity on Dartmoor across thousands of years and the enduring relationship between people and this working landscape.
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