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Three cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
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Longstone Hill holds a cairnfield of Bronze Age origin, of which three cairns form the focus of this scheduled monument. These burial or ritual mounds sit within a landscape shaped by prehistoric activity, where cairns and stone circles mark the high moorland. The moorland here has remained largely open since ancient times, preserving the archaeological record in a way that lowland areas rarely do.
Visitors walking across Longstone Hill will find themselves in the working landscape of Dartmoor's uplands. The cairns are simple stone heaps, weathered and scattered by time and moorland use, but they anchor the place firmly in the Bronze Age past. This is archaeology woven into the everyday moor, accessible to those who wander the high ground.
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