It is very difficult to supress the notion that Dartmoor’s craggy tors and cairns were intrinsically linked in folk’s mind when the latter were new. There really is a seemingly artificial geometry to the geology which, or so it would seem, inspired some to surround them with cairns. I was to view a splendid such example of a ‘tor cairn’ at Cox Tor a week later.
Image credit: Robert Gladstone
