Dartmoor Trust
Dartmoor Trust Archive
Preserving Dartmoor's recorded history
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Admiral ParkerBarkerBarlowBattisonBaxterBentleyBoddyBowdenBuckfast AbbeyBurnardCannChapmanClarkeCollingsCopleyCreedCurnoDiBaccoDick ParkerDingleEllingworthEvansEwingFalconFernley HeathFrancis LeeFriendGedyeGuestHarrodHeathmanHurfordHyneJohn MorganJonesKen RuthLawlorLorna SmithLustleighManatonManningsMooreMoor MemoriesPetworthRedstoneRowlands DruidRuseShepherdSt Leger GordonSouth TawtonSteadStepdanceSticklepathSwiftSouthwest WaterTavistockTaylorTen TorsTony ClarkTuckerValiant SoldierViv WilsonWBBWheelerWilsonWoodWoodliffeWoodsWorth
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Dartmoor Trust
Spinster's Rock
Spinster's Rock is the best known of all the prehistoric chambered tombs on Dartmoor. Chambered tombs, or cromlechs, are neolithic burial monuments. They consist of a stone-built chamber with a mound covering of earth or stone. Burnard's photograph, dated 20th June 1891, shows the monument after the 1860's re-erection and restoration.