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- Period: Bronze Age
- Status: Five scheduled monuments (Historic England entries listed below)
- Cairns: Eight round cairns in five entries, 4.5 m to 10 m across
Round cairns are the burial mounds of the Bronze Age. On Sharpitor, Historic England records one on the north-north-west slope, with a kerb of nine stones and a cist (a stone-lined burial box) exposed in its centre, and four more on the gentle slope to the north-east, where several keep traces of a buried kerb and two have a cist opened by early digging.
The five scheduled monuments
| Historic England entry | Grid reference | What survives |
|---|---|---|
| 1007423 | SX 55838 70678 | A cairn 4.5 m by 3.9 m ringed by nine stones up to 0.8 m high, with a cist 1.2 m by 0.55 m open in the centre. |
| 1007430 | SX 56416 70852 | A cairn 10 m across and 0.8 m high with a buried kerb and a cist 1.4 m by 0.6 m exposed on its south-west side. |
| 1007431 | SX 56438 70834 | A cairn 10 m across and 0.9 m high with a buried kerb and a hollow in the middle. |
| 1007432 | SX 56319 70888 | A cairn 7.5 m across and 0.7 m high with a hollow in the middle and traces of a buried kerb. |
| 1007643 | SX 56304 70434 | A closely spaced group of four round cairns, the largest about 6 m across and 0.8 m high, with kerbs surviving partly as buried features. |
Grid references are from the Historic England entries. Each entry covers one scheduled monument; a monument can hold several features.
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