Stone circles on Lakehead Hill
The stone circles on Lakehead Hill (also called Bellever complex) are located on the southern slope of Lakehead Hill near Postbridge in Devon in England . The National Park Dartmoor Authority has numbered every location on Lakehead Hill. A circle is near a stone circle without a box; they are numbered 12A and 13A. J. Butler names them in his "Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities Vol. 2 - The North" - No. 5 (Cairn Circle) and No. 6 (Cairn Circle and Cist).
The top circle 5
The upper circle is about 6.8 m in diameter and surrounds an almost flat interior. It consists of 10 preserved plates (4 missing). About 40 m southeast of the circle are another 3 or 4 slabs, which are probably the remains of a row of stones . Individual plates of similar size are numerous in the vicinity.
The lower circle 6
The lower circle with a diameter of 5.6 m is 16.0 m to the southeast and also has 10 plates. The interior is taken up by the large top plate of a stone box that was excavated in 1896 but found empty. As with the upper circle, the remainder is apparently a row of stones in the southeast.
Nearby are another stone box and several cairns , hut foundations, stone boxes, circles and rows, including Lakehead Hill East .
literature
- Aubrey Burl: The stone circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany . Yale University Press 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 ° 34'53.1 " N , 3 ° 55'5" W.