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Stone alignment 260m south of Higher White Tor is a prehistoric linear arrangement of standing stones located on Dartmoor in Devon. The monument consists of aligned stone blocks typical of Bronze Age ritual or ceremonial monuments, a common feature of the Dartmoor landscape dating to the second millennium BC. Such alignments are believed to have held religious or calendrical significance for the communities that constructed them, though their precise function remains subject to archaeological interpretation. The site forms part of the broader complex of Bronze Age monuments that characterises the high moorland of Dartmoor.
Stone alignment 260m south of Higher White Tor is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020239. View the official record →
Stone alignment 260m south of Higher White Tor is a prehistoric linear arrangement of standing stones located on Dartmoor in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020239.
Stone alignment 260m south of Higher White Tor 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 1020239.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including The north-western of two cairns on Eylesbarrow (9.9 km), The south-eastern of two cairns on Eylesbarrow (9.9 km), Cairnfield and enclosure 725m east of Cuckoo Rock (9.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Stone alignment 260m south of Higher White Tor's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Stone alignment 260m south of Higher White Tor stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.