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Round cairn and cist on Black Down 1.6km east of Higher Bowden
Devon
This scheduled monument consists of a round cairn, a mound of stones built in the Bronze Age, containing a stone-built cist or burial chamber at its centre. Such monuments are common across Dartmoor and speak to the ritual and funerary practices of communities who lived on and worked the moor in prehistory.
Today the site sits on open moorland, part of the wider archaeological landscape of Black Down. Visitors approaching on foot will find the remains substantial enough to read in the terrain, though Bronze Age cairns vary greatly in their state of preservation. The setting itself is part of the experience: open ground, wide views, and the sense of walking through a palimpsest of Dartmoor's deep past.
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