Chittaford Down stone chest

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Chittaford Down stone chest

The stone box of Chittaford Down is located northwest of Postbridge in Devon in England .

The north-west-south-east oriented stone box lies in the center of a cairn about 8.0 m in diameter and 0.6 m in height. Seven stones of the hillside protrude from the grass. The stone box made of four slabs is about 1.3 m long, 0.5 m wide and 0.65 m deep inside. The capstone is missing.

Around 300 m away is the Roundy Park Cairn with one of the largest stone boxes in the southwest.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 56 "  N , 3 ° 55 ′ 39.6"  W.