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Two round cairns on the northern slope of Metheral Hill
Devon
These two round cairns sit on the northern slope of Metheral Hill as a scheduled monument, evidence of Bronze Age burial practices on Dartmoor. Round cairns like these were typically constructed as communal or individual burial monuments, built by stacking stone to mark significant places in the prehistoric landscape. Their survival across millennia makes them valuable records of how people lived and died on the moor thousands of years ago.
Today the cairns remain as low stone structures in the moorland, part of the dense scatter of prehistoric remains that characterise this part of Dartmoor. Walking here, you encounter the layered history of the landscape: Bronze Age communities left their mark through monuments like these, and the moorland itself has changed and been managed across the centuries. The site is accessible to those willing to explore the open moor on foot.
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