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Two cairns on Cator Common
Devon
These two cairns sit on Cator Common, among the scattered monuments that mark Bronze Age settlement and burial practices across Dartmoor. Built as burial mounds over 3,000 years ago, they remain as low stone heaps, weathered but still recognisable to anyone walking the moor with an eye for its past.
The site is a scheduled monument, protected for its archaeological importance. Visiting means walking open moorland where these humble structures sit in their original landscape, unexcavated and largely undisturbed. They offer a quiet reminder of Bronze Age life on Dartmoor and the way people once shaped this high ground with stone.
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