Verified50.5533° N · 4.0367° W · 340 m
Merrivale Stone Rows
Merrivale Prehistoric Settlement
Late Neolithic – Middle Bronze Age·Dartmoor Bronze Age·🇬🇧 Dartmoor, Devon, England, United Kingdom
About
About Merrivale Stone Rows
Concentrated Late Neolithic–Bronze Age ritual settlement on Dartmoor: double stone rows (up to 264 m), stone circle, standing stone (3.2 m), cists, hut circles and Bronze Age field systems on open moor.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c. 2500–1500 BCE
- Period
- Late Neolithic – Middle Bronze Age
- Culture
- Dartmoor Bronze Age
- Purpose
- Ritual avenue and farming settlement
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
c. 2500–1500 BCE
Initial construction
c. 1201 CE
Rediscovery
Location
Where it is
50.5533° N · 4.0367° W · 340 m
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