Down Tor

The stone circle and stone row at Down Tor east of Burrator Reservoir in Dartmoor (Devon) in England. From the Princetown - Yelverton Road ( B3212 ), a road leads to the parking area at the east end of the reservoir. From here a path leads east to Down Tor. The gate is down a five-meter high natural rock formation weathered granite.

The Megalithic below the rock outcrop consist of a ruined stone hill, which lay in the middle of the stone circle, and a 349 -meter concave stone row extending from the stone circle from up the hill. The destroyed Cairn within the eleven -meters- stone ring was about 8.5 m in diameter. 25 stones from an average of about 0.5 m height form the circle. An end block of 1.5 m height is at the upper end of the series, while the 2.7 m high end stone is at the bottom, outside the circle. The last of the stones consisting of 31 granite series to take in the direction of the 2.7 m high stone.