Round cairn near Sharpitor

This round cairn sits on open moorland north-east of Sharpitor summit, a Bronze Age burial monument typical of Dartmoor's high ground. Like many cairns across the moor, it marks a place where people chose to inter their dead among the granite tors and heather, creating a lasting stone monument that has endured for over three thousand years.

Visiting today, you will find a low stony mound on the ridge landscape. The cairn is a scheduled monument, protected for its archaeological importance. It stands as quiet evidence of Dartmoor's deep human history and the Bronze Age societies who shaped the moor as we see it now.