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The southernmost of four cairns forming part of the cairnfield on the western slope of White Hill
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This cairn is one of four that make up a cairnfield on the western slope of White Hill, likely built during the Bronze Age when such burial and ceremonial monuments dotted Dartmoor's high ground. The cairns sit on open moorland that would have been worked and lived on for thousands of years, part of a wider pattern of prehistoric settlement and ritual activity across the moor.
Today the cairn sits in its moorland context much as it has for millennia. Walking here offers a sense of Dartmoor's archaeological depth, with the chance to see how Bronze Age communities marked their landscape. The site is a scheduled monument, protected for its historical importance and the evidence it holds about early settlement on the moor.
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