Cairn near Vixen Tor

On walking routes: Abbot's Way

This scheduled monument consists of a cairn with a stone-built cist, typical of Bronze Age burial practice on Dartmoor. The site sits on open moorland north of Vixen Tor, a landscape shaped by millennia of use and abandonment. Such monuments are scattered across the high moor, marking places where Bronze Age communities laid their dead beneath carefully constructed mounds of stone.

Today the cairn and cist survive as a tangible link to Dartmoor's prehistoric past. Visiting the site means walking the open moor, reading the landscape through its fragments, and understanding the long human presence that shaped the terrain you walk on.

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