Row of stones from Piles Hill

The stone row from Piles Hill (also called "Piles Hill NE") is a nearly 1000 m long stone row north of Ivybridge near Plymouth in Devon in England . Most of the stones, which are very massive for Dartmoor, have fallen over, so that only their point or a bump in the lawn is visible.

The row of stones consists of an avenue of large stones that runs east to west on the ridge of Piles Hill. The stones are over 1.0 m long, many more than two meters. The distance between the rows varies between 15 and 20 meters, the distance between stones within the rows is around five to six meters. The avenue is almost straight in the middle and bends north at both ends, running downhill. There are fewer stones at greater intervals on the hill. Undoubtedly many were used in road building. The southern row of the avenue ends in the west with a very large slab. The northern row ends with a standing stone about 2 meters long with a pointed top. There are two burial mounds nearby .

See also

• Rows of stones in Dartmoor

literature

• DD Emmett: Stone rows: the traditional view reconsidered. In: Valerie A. Maxfield (Ed.): Prehistoric Dartmoor in its Context (= Devon Archaeological Society. Proceedings. No. 37, ISSN  0305-5795 ). Devon Archaeological Society, Exeter 1979, pp. 94-114.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '0.2 "  N , 3 ° 53" 47.7 "  W.