Down gate
The stone circle and stone row on Down Tor lie east of Burrator reservoir in Dartmoor ( Devon ) in England . From Princetown-Yelverton Road (B3212), a road leads to the parking lot at the east end of the reservoir. From here a footpath leads east to Down Tor . The Down Tor is a five meter high natural rock formation of weathered granite .
The megalithic complexes below the rock outcrop consist of a destroyed stone mound that lay in the middle of the stone circle and an approximately 349.0 m long concave row of stones that runs up the hill from the stone circle. The destroyed cairn within the eleven-meter stone ring was about 8.5 m in diameter. 25 stones with an average height of about 0.5 m form the circle. An end stone 1.5 m high is at the top of the row, while the 2.7 m high end stone is at the bottom, outside the circle. The last stones in the row of 31 granites increase towards the 2.7 m high stone.
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- ↑ A gate is the English name for a rock outcrop created by erosion that is found near the top of hills. The term also refers to the hill itself, especially in Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor.
Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 21.9 ″ N , 3 ° 59 ′ 38.9 ″ W.