The north-western of two cairns on Eylesbarrow

Eylesbarrow holds two cairns, burial monuments built during the Bronze Age when Dartmoor's high ground was more densely settled than it is today. This north-western example is a scheduled monument, recognized for its archaeological importance and age. Like many cairns across the moor, it was constructed by gathering local stone into a mound, a substantial labour that speaks to the significance of those buried within.

Today the cairn sits on the open moorland landscape much as it has for thousands of years, part of a wider pattern of Bronze Age settlement visible across this part of Dartmoor. A walk to the site offers both the monument itself and views across the surrounding moor. The presence of two cairns close together suggests a place of particular importance to the communities who lived here in prehistory.