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The south-eastern of two cairns on Eylesbarrow
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Eylesbarrow holds two cairns, both likely dating from the Bronze Age. This south-eastern example sits in the characteristic landscape of Dartmoor's higher ground, where such monuments are scattered across the granite uplands. The cairn itself is a stone burial mound, built by people who lived on and worked the moor thousands of years ago.
Today it appears as a heap of stones, weathered and partially turf-covered, marking a burial or ritual site of the prehistoric Dartmoor community. Visiting requires walking across open moorland, which gives a real sense of the environment these people inhabited and the permanence they sought to give their monuments.
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