Cairn cemetery near Hapstead Ford

This scheduled monument is a cemetery of cairns dating from the Bronze Age, when burial mounds were built across Dartmoor's high ground. The site lies in open moorland between Hapstead Ford and Fore Stoke, part of a wider pattern of prehistoric activity that shaped the moor's ancient landscape. Cairn cemeteries like this one suggest organised communities with established burial practices and territorial claims to the moor.

Today the site consists of the remains of multiple cairns scattered across the moorland. The stones have weathered over three thousand years, but their distribution across the ground still marks this place as significant in the Bronze Age story of Dartmoor. Walking here, you move through landscape that has held human meaning since prehistoric times.

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