Round cairn near Beardown Man lying on the eastern slope of Conies Down Tor

This scheduled monument is a round cairn, likely dating to the Bronze Age, when burial mounds were a common way to mark the dead across Dartmoor. It sits on the eastern slope of Conies Down Tor, a location chosen for its prominence in the landscape and its visibility from surrounding moorland. The cairn would originally have been more substantial, possibly containing a central burial cist or cremation deposit.

Today the site is a low mound, best appreciated as part of the wider archaeological context of this part of the moor. Walkers on or near Conies Down Tor can see how these ancient monuments are woven into Dartmoor's topography, markers of communities who lived and died here thousands of years ago. The site is a scheduled monument and protected as part of Dartmoor's heritage.