Spinsters Rock, Dartmoor UK
N 50° 42.128 W 003° 50.445
30U E 440628 N 5617038
A burial chamber on East Dartmoor.
Waymark Code: WM22QZ
Location: United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/25/2007
Views: 104
This burial chamber is on farm land, there is access through a small gate and a path across a field.
The plaque says:
A Neolithic burial chamber erected around 3500-2500 BC
The chamber probably contained many burials and would originally have been covered by a long earthen mound.
The stones fell down in 1862 and were re-erected in the same year.
Traditionally the monument was erected by three spinsters one morning before breakfast.
Type: Dolmen
Number: 4.00
Size:
The top stone is massive, it is about 6 feet above the ground.
Source:
Dartmoor Granite
Purpose:
Burial Ground
Parking: Not Listed
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