Cairn with cist near Gutter Tor

This scheduled monument is a Bronze Age cairn, built as a burial structure and likely dating to the second millennium before Christ. The cairn contains a cist, a stone-built chamber that would have held human remains and grave goods. Such monuments are common across Dartmoor and speak to the moor's long history of settlement and ritual practice.

North of Gutter Tor, the cairn sits within Dartmoor's open landscape of moorland, granite outcrops and grassland. Like many Bronze Age burial sites on the moor, it has weathered thousands of years of exposure. Visiting requires walking out onto open moorland where these monuments anchor the sense of Dartmoor's deep past into the present terrain.

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