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These three round cairns sit on the high moorland east of Down Tor, remnants of Bronze Age burial and ceremonial practices. Such cairns were built over a long period, often marking graves or significant gathering places, and their presence here reflects the intensive use of Dartmoor's uplands in prehistory. The site is a Scheduled Monument, protected for its archaeological importance.
Today the cairns are modest earthen mounds among the heather and grass, easy to overlook but worth seeking out. Their survival on open moorland, away from later settlement and cultivation, has kept them relatively intact. Walking this part of Dartmoor, these monuments anchor you to the moor's deep past and the people who lived and died here thousands of years ago.
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