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Spinsters' Rock

Grid ref: SX 7009 9078

Main image: Devon-SpinstersRock - 3 metres from location - image by Mik Peach (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons

  • Period: Neolithic
  • Grid reference: SX 7009 9078 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)

An 18th-century pamphlet by William Chapple (the exact year is disputed, either 1778 or 1779) argued the dolmen was a Druidical monument. The stones genuinely collapsed in 1862, after a wet spring weakened the ploughed soil beneath them, and were rebuilt by local people using a four-year-old sketch of the original arrangement.

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