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This scheduled monument consists of a round cairn and an associated enclosure, located on the high moorland south of Hound Tor. The site dates to the Bronze Age, when Dartmoor's uplands were more extensively settled and farmed than they are today. The cairn would have served as a burial marker or territorial landmark, while the enclosure suggests occupation or pastoral use.
Today the remains are low and spread across the open moor, their forms softened by time and turf. The site sits within a landscape rich in prehistoric evidence, where cairns, settlements and field systems tell the story of ancient communities who shaped Dartmoor long before the moorland we know now. Walking here offers a sense of continuity with those distant inhabitants.
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