Round cairn near Stoneyhurst

This round cairn stands on the high moorland west of Stoneyhurst, likely built during the Bronze Age as a burial monument. Such cairns are among Dartmoor's most enduring archaeological features, built from stone gathered or exposed across the moor and often sited with deliberation on prominent ground.

Today the cairn remains as a low stone mound within the open landscape, part of the dense scatter of prehistoric monuments across this part of Dartmoor. Its position and form offer insight into how Bronze Age communities marked the moor as a place of burial and memory, and it sits within a wider pattern of settlement and ritual activity that shaped Dartmoor's archaeology.