A round cairn 13 m across on the lower north-west slope of Yes Tor, the easternmost outlier of the Longstone Hill cairn cluster, with shell hollows from military training.
An intact round cairn 6 m across and 0.9 m high on Whitchurch Common, with large stones through the surface, within the coaxial field system over Cox Tor.
A Bronze Age round cairn on the open moorland west of Stoneyhurst, a scheduled monument of archaeological significance.
A round cairn 4.5 m across and 0.8 m high, with part of a kerb on its east edge, beside a scattered hut settlement above the Cowsic.
A round cairn 5.6 m across and 0.6 m high on the summit of Corn Ridge, one of six in a cemetery.
“It is only when the thick white fog comes down upon the moor that these poor creatures ever dream of freedom.”
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A round cairn 9.3 m across and 0.7 m high on a west-facing slope above Bridestowe, with hollows from early digging or robbing.
A round cairn 10 m across and up to 1 m high with a slight central hollow, on a south-west slope above the Meavy, inside a post-medieval field.
A round cairn 9.8 m across and 0.7 m high above a small tributary of the East Okement, with a central pit from robbing or early digging.
A prominent stony round cairn 24 m across and 3 m high on the east crest of the ridge running south from Watern Tor, with a central pit, a modern shelter and a probable buried ditch.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“Pixies, too, hold a high place in the imaginations of Devonians. The villagers around Haldon and Dartmoor assert that these little people have their homes among the tors, and keep their houses spotlessly clean ; that they enjoy mad gallops at night on colts, making stirrups in their manes and ...”
Also on Our DartmoorSaxon Well — A modest stone well hidden in the moorland, marking centuries of water-seeking on Dartmoor's high ground.
