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Two cairns forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
Devon
These two cairns are part of a Bronze Age cairnfield that spreads across Longstone Hill. Built during the second millennium BC, they were likely burial monuments or ritual markers for communities living on the moor. Cairnfields like this one reveal how intensively the higher ground of Dartmoor was settled and used in prehistoric times.
Today the cairns remain as low stone heaps among the moorland vegetation. Walking across the hillside, you can trace the wider pattern of the cairnfield and sense how the Bronze Age inhabitants shaped this landscape. The site is a scheduled monument, protected for its archaeological importance.
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