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- Period: Bronze Age (Dartmoor's stone rows are mostly dated to the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age)
- Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1009090)
- Length: 316 m, at least 174 stones
- Grid reference: SX 58848 69324
The row runs east-north-east to west-south-west on a saddle between the north-west flank of Eylesbarrow and Down Tor. It is bowed slightly to the north, by up to 2.5 m. The tallest stones stand at the ends: 2.8 m at the western end and 1.6 m at the eastern end, while the stones along the middle are between 0.2 m and 1 m high. Sabine Baring-Gould and Robert Burnard re-erected the large western end stone, and an unknown number of others, in 1890.
Four metres west of the western end is a cairn, an 8 m mound 0.7 m high with a hollow in the middle from early digging or robbing, ringed by a kerb of 24 upright stones, 0.3 m to 1 m high, that makes a circle 11.5 m across. Two tin prospecting pits press against the western edge of the kerb. Historic England notes that the row points straight at another cairn at SX 5919 6944, which is scheduled separately.
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