Cosdon Hill by pat40

Photography • Abstract • posted on Jan 28, 2014

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Description

On a flattish shelf of land on the eastern side of Cosdon Hill, Dartmoor, are the splendid remains of a cairn and treble stone row. The three parallel rows run off down the hillside from the cairn in an approximately easterly direction, spaced about 1.5 metres apart, for a distance of at least 140 metres, perhaps up to 180 metres to where possibly a large triangular blocking stone can be found. The rows are not straight, and curve slightly to the south, then back north down the hill. As usual, the larger stones are near to the cairn, between 2 and 3 feet high, and they generally get smaller the further away from the cairn they are, with a few notable exceptions. Each of the rows has a large slab placed across the rows at its end by the cairn, but these are perhaps not their original positions, and do not line up with each other. The upper part of these rows survives in a very good state, but the lower part of the rows remain in a much more ruinous or buried state. Partway down the rows, an old track has been driven through the rows, but even here, stones still remain standing between the two sections of the cut track way.