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Stone alignment on Conies Down is a Bronze Age monument consisting of a line of standing stones located on Dartmoor in Devon. The alignment dates to the second millennium BCE and represents one of the characteristic ritual or territorial markers of the Bronze Age landscape in south-west England. The stones are arranged in a linear pattern across the moorland, a form common to Dartmoor's prehistoric stone rows. Such alignments are thought to have served ceremonial or processional functions within the Bronze Age communities of the region, though their precise purpose remains subject to scholarly interpretation.
Stone alignment on Conies Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008012. View the official record →
Stone alignment on Conies Down is a Bronze Age monument consisting of a line of standing stones located on Dartmoor in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008012.
Stone alignment on Conies Down 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 1008012.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Tor cairn 60m south east of Down Tor (9.6 km), Stone alignment and cairn 830m east of Down Tor (9.6 km), Round cairn and later tin prospecting pits 615m ESE of Down Tor (9.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Stone alignment on Conies Down'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 on Conies Down stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.