Stone chest at the Crow Gate
The stone box at Crow Tor is 160 meters southwest of the outcrop called Crow Tor , north of Two Bridges , near Princetown in Dartmoor National Park in Devon , England .
Crow Tor is a cairn with a stone box . The cairn consists of a lawn-covered mound 4.5 m in diameter and 0.45 m high. In the north-east and south there are traces of a curb ring made of granite slabs . The stone box is a little north of the center of the cairn.
It is trapezoidal and has a length of 0.95 m, a width of 0.8 to 0.65 m and a depth of 0.5 m. The offset capstone to the southeast of the box is 0.9 m long, 0.5 m wide and 0.2 m thick.
The Heritage Gateway for Devon & Dartmoor dates the box and the Rundcairn between the Early Neolithic and the Late Bronze Ages (4000 BC-700 BC). It is a protected monument.
Nearby is the Beardown Cairn with its stone box, also known as the Lydford Cairn.
See also
literature
- Jeremy Butler : Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities - Vol. V, Devon Books, Exeter 1997
- Susan M. Pearce : Devon in Prehistory, Exeter City Museums, Exeter. 1978
Web links
Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 28.1 ″ N , 3 ° 58 ′ 18.2 ″ W.