Looking ESE, downhill at the ruined kerb cairn, two rectangular burial cists & capstone, & triple stone row on Cosdon Hill, Dartmoor, Devon, England.
Looking ESE, downhill at the ruined kerb cairn, two rectangular burial cists & capstone, & triple stone row on Cosdon Hill, Dartmoor, Devon, England, UK. Only five stones remain of the ruined circle around the cairn. The parallel rows ran for at least 140m (449ft) & each row has a blocking slab at its W end. The taller, heavier N (L) row may have been added to the other two. The complex was damaged in prehistory when stones were taken away for use in a Bronze Age boundary bank (reave); the site was partly restored in 1897. Improved lowland fields can be seen to the rear.
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Location: Cosdon Hill Stone Rows, Okehampton, Dartmoor, Devon, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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