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Round cairn and cist 440m east of White Tor summit
Devon
This scheduled monument is a round cairn built in the Bronze Age, likely between 2000 and 1000 BC. The site takes its name from its location, 440 metres east of White Tor's summit on the open moorland. At its centre lies a cist, a stone-built burial chamber that would have held human remains and grave goods. The cairn itself is a mound of stones heaped over this burial, a common practice across Dartmoor during the Bronze Age.
Today the site stands on high, exposed moorland where moorland grasses and heather have reclaimed much of the landscape. The cairn and cist remain visible to those who seek them out, part of the dense scatter of Bronze Age burial monuments that mark Dartmoor's ancient story. Visitors crossing this part of the moor are walking through a landscape shaped by communities thousands of years ago.
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