Cairn near Ditsworthy Warren House

This cairn is a scheduled monument from the Bronze Age, built as a burial mound or territorial marker on the high open ground of central Dartmoor. Like many of its kind across the moor, it would have been raised by people who lived and herded stock here thousands of years ago, leaving their mark on the landscape that remains visible today.

The site sits in exposed moorland near Ditsworthy Warren House, a place of wide views and sparse vegetation. Visiting involves cross-moor walking and awareness of the terrain. The cairn itself is modest in scale, as many Bronze Age examples are, yet it forms part of Dartmoor's rich scatter of prehistoric remains that tell the story of early settlement on this high ground.

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