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Re: Piles Hill NE by optilith on Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Piles Hill Double Stone Row is a really interesting site. The stones are significantly larger than the average Dartmoor rows and of a different character. Jeremy Butler suggests the original length was 865m with a width of 5.55m and a possible 150 stones in each row. All of which should make this a unsung gem. However the stones were not re-erected when so many others were over a century ago and what remains needs a little imagination.

A long curve of buried stones rises over the hill and down the other side with the west end being the most photogenic. I read somewhere that the nature and size of this double row may make it the ancestor of the other Dartmoor rows. I can't seem to find this entry but it does seem to make sense to me.

It would certainly be a good candidate for some Archaeological dating work.

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