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Stone alignment and terminal cairn with a retaining kerb on Ringmoor Down
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This Bronze Age monument on Ringmoor Down comprises a stone alignment with a terminal cairn, bounded by a kerb of stones. Such alignments are thought to have held ritual or ceremonial significance for the communities who built them, though their exact purpose remains part of Dartmoor's enduring mystery. The site sits within the high moorland landscape that has changed little since prehistory.
Today the stones remain as they were left, weathered and absorbed into the moorland. Walking here places you among the concentrated archaeology of central Dartmoor, where Bronze Age burial cairns and alignments are scattered across the upland plateau. The site is a scheduled monument, protected in recognition of its historical importance to understanding early settlement and belief on the moor.
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