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Stone alignment and cairns on Stalldown is a Bronze Age ritual and funerary monument complex located on Stalldown in Devon. The site comprises a linear arrangement of standing stones together with associated burial cairns, characteristic of ceremonial landscapes established during the Bronze Age period. Such alignments typically served both processional and commemorative functions within prehistoric communities, marking sacred routes or territorial boundaries across the moorland landscape. The monument remains an important archaeological record of Bronze Age burial practices and ritual activity in the south-western peninsula.
Stone alignment and cairns on Stalldown is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015806. View the official record →
Stone alignment and cairns on Stalldown is a Bronze Age ritual and funerary monument complex located on Stalldown in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015806.
Stone alignment and cairns on Stalldown 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 1015806.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Enclosure with hut circles east of Addicombe (4.4 km), One of a number of cairns at Black Pool (4.7 km), One of a number of cairns at Black Pool (4.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Stone alignment and cairns on Stalldown'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 and cairns on Stalldown stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.