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Round cairn 560m south east of Little Staple Tor
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This round cairn sits on Dartmoor's open moorland southeast of Little Staple Tor, among the scattered remains of Bronze Age settlement and ceremony that characterize this part of the high moor. Like many cairns across Dartmoor, it likely served as a burial monument, built by communities who worked the moor thousands of years ago.
Today it stands as a low stony mound in the heather and grass, part of the wider archaeological landscape that shaped Dartmoor's identity. To visit is to walk among the remains of a ancient past, reading the moor itself as a palimpsest of Bronze Age life.
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