These two cairns sit on the high open ground at Ausewell Rocks, likely dating to the Bronze Age when ritual monuments and burial mounds were built across Dartmoor. The cairns are scheduled monuments, recognised as significant archaeological features that survive from thousands of years ago.
Today they stand as low stone heaps among the heather and granite outcrops, part of the dense scatter of Bronze Age remains that give Dartmoor its distinctive ancient character. Visiting means walking out onto the open moor itself, where the landscape and the monuments exist together as they have for millennia.
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