Triple stone alignment near Cawsand Beacon

This scheduled monument comprises a stone alignment and cairn positioned on open moorland east of Cawsand Beacon. The stones are likely Bronze Age in origin, dating to a period when ritual monuments and burial sites were built across Dartmoor's high ground. Such alignments often marked routes, gathering places, or held ceremonial significance for the communities who inhabited and worked the moor.

Today the site sits within the exposed granite landscape typical of central Dartmoor. The stones remain modest and weathered, part of a wider pattern of Bronze Age remains scattered across the moor. Walking to the site offers a sense of the ancient topography and the choices made by Dartmoor's earliest inhabitants about where and what to build.

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