Spinster's Rock
Spinster's Rock (also called Shilstone Cromlech) is a Neolithic , between 3500 and 2500 BC. A megalithic complex, which is called Quoit type in the region . It is located near Chagford , at the end of a valley, on a body of water that flows into the Teign, on the northeastern edge of Dartmoor in Devon in England . The facility, which collapsed during a violent storm in 1862, was restored with the help of sketches a few years ago. However, drawings differ from today's building.
The system consists of three supporting stones, the largest, with a corner cut off to place the capstone, which weighs over 16 t, is over three meters high. Dolmen with three bearing stones and one capstone, so-called tripod dolmen, occur both in the east of Ireland ( Legananny County Down ; Proleek County Louth ) and in Cornwall Devon and Wales (e.g. Pentre Ifan , Carreg Coetan Arthur ). Here this type of megalithic complex is called Quoit . The best known is the Lanyon Quoit. They were initially treated as a special group but are portal tombs that have been stripped of their remaining stones.
It is unclear whether the chamber ever had a mound of earth or stone, as was usual, but when it did, all trace of it is gone. The whole area used to be rich in prehistoric monuments. Unfortunately, everyone went out today except for this chamber, which is lonely in a field west of the village of Drewsteignton. Drewsteignton means: "Place on the Druid Stones".
Legend has it that the stones were set up by three virgins or witches one morning before breakfast.
literature
- John Barnatt: Prehistoric Cornwall: The ceremonial monuments . Turnstone Press 1982, ISBN 0855001291 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 7.7 ″ N , 3 ° 50 ′ 27.5 ″ W.