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Round cairn 580m south of Horn's Cross

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This round cairn sits among a cluster of similar Bronze Age monuments on Holne Ridge, a landscape shaped by ritual and burial over thousands of years. The cairn cemetery tells the story of communities who marked their dead and their sacred places in stone, creating a pattern of monuments that still defines the high moor today.

Visiting the site means walking the moorland ridges where these structures remain much as they have for millennia. The cairn itself is a modest earthwork of piled stone, best understood as part of the wider group rather than in isolation. This is a place that rewards time spent reading the landscape.

Historic England listed designation: Round cairn 580m south of Horn's Cross forming part of a cairn cemetery on Holne Ridge

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