Lakehead Hill East

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Lakehead Hill East

Lakehead Hill East (also called Lakehead Hill 4th Cairn, Cist and Stone Row ) is a stone box in a stone circle and row of stones near Longaford Tor, west of Bellever in Devon , England .

A row of stones about 12.0 m long consisting of 11 stones leads to a rudimentary stone circle and a cairn that has gone out , which surround a stone box. The compact stone box consists of six bearing stones and a large, almost rectangular cap stone.

The series suffered the fate of being excavated and "restored" in 1895 by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee. Many of today's features are believed to be non-original. But the kink in the row is similar to many other rows on the moors. No finds were made.

The Bellever Tor Cairns and a number of other, but more disturbed, monuments are nearby . The exception is the stone chest in Lakehead Hill 2 county .

See also

literature

  • Aubrey Burl: The stone circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany. Revised edition. Yale University Press, New Haven CT et al. 2000, ISBN 0-300-08347-5 .
  • Robin Payne: The Romance of the Stones. Alexander Associates, Fowey 1999, ISBN 1-899526-21-8 .

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Coordinates: 50 ° 34'56.6 "  N , 3 ° 54'55.1"  W.