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Double stone alignment with a large cairn south-west of Penn Beacon is a Bronze Age monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. The site comprises two parallel lines of stones associated with a substantial cairn, a characteristic arrangement of the Bronze Age period on Dartmoor. Such alignments, typically dating to the second millennium BC, may have served ceremonial or funerary purposes within the Bronze Age landscape. The cairn represents a burial mound constructed during this prehistoric period and forms part of the dense concentration of Bronze Age ritual and funerary monuments distributed across Dartmoor.
Double stone alignment with a large cairn south-west of Penn Beacon is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017400. View the official record →
Double stone alignment with a large cairn south-west of Penn Beacon is a Bronze Age monument located on Dartmoor in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017400.
Double stone alignment with a large cairn south-west of Penn Beacon is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1017400.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including One of a number of cairns at Black Pool (7.3 km), One of a number of cairns at Black Pool (7.4 km), One of a number of cairns at Black Pool (7.5 km).
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