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Cairn on Chagford Common 320m west of West Vitifer Mine

Scheduled monument

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The National Heritage List for England records Cairn on Chagford Common 320m west of West Vitifer Mine as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Neolithic chambered cairn; dates to the earlier part of the Neolithic period (c. 3500–2500 BCE). It is significant as a rare surviving example of prehistoric funerary architecture in the Dartmoor area, reflecting early communal burial practices.

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