This is Spinster's Rock, the best surviving example in Devon of a neolithic burial chamber known as a dolmen or cromlech.

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Near Chagford off a minor road leading to the village of Drewsteignton stands a large stone slab or capstone supported by three upright stones. This is Spinster's Rock, the best surviving example in Devon of a neolithic burial chamber known as a dolmen or cromlech. Three stones are necessary and sufficient to support the capstone of a dolmen, though instances of these megalithic antiquities with more than three supports exist.

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