Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1009797) describes a tor cairn on the summit of Corn Ridge, a bank of small to medium stones around a large rock outcrop known as Branscombe's Loaf. The ring bank is a rubble spread 1.5 metres wide and 0.5 metres high around an inner area 18 metres across. The outcrop is 12 metres east to west by 4 metres north to south and stands up to 4 metres high. The cairn is part of a cemetery of six cairns: two round cairns, two tor cairns and two ring cairns. It lies in the parish of LCPs of Bridestowe and Sourton, about 0.9 km south-west of Shelstone Tor and 2.2 km south-east of Sourton.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1009797, which cites Turner, 'Ring Cairns, Stone Circles and Related Monuments on Dartmoor' (Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings 48, 1990), page 34.
Period: Bronze Age
Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1009797)
Grid reference: SX 5530 8911 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
Historic England listed designation: Tor cairn surrounding Branscombe's Loaf forming part of a cemetery on Corn Ridge summit
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