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This round cairn is a scheduled monument typical of Bronze Age burial practices on Dartmoor, built as a stone mound to cover and mark a grave or graves. The site sits on the high open moorland west-southwest of Crazy Well Pool, one of many such cairns scattered across the granite plateau that speak to intensive use of the moor in prehistory.
Visitors will find an earthwork mound of loose stones among the heather and rough grass, modest in scale but enduring. The surrounding landscape holds dozens of other cairns, stone rows and ritual sites, creating a sense of how densely the Bronze Age communities worked and travelled this terrain. The exposure and views are typical Dartmoor, with the moor's character shaped by centuries of human activity layered beneath the natural landforms.
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