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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Hart Tor north rows Alternative Name: Hartor northCountry: England County: Devon Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Nearest Town: Princetown
Map Ref: SX57637169 Landranger Map Number: 202
Latitude: 50.527621N Longitude: 4.009993W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Catrinm visited on 14th Jan 2024 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 A lovely double row with some substantial stones lading to well preserved cairn circle. Once can only guess this is an avenue to walk to the burial site which the cairn encircles.
graemefield visited on 18th May 2017 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 3
SandyG visited on 20th Oct 2014 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Roadside car parking is available at SX 56985 71765. From here the row can be reached across open moorland. The row is situated about 600m to the east. The River Meavy needs to be crossed and it is usually possible to do this via a very narrow “footbridge”.
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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.33 Ambience: 4.33 Access: 3
There are two stone rows at Hart Tor. Burl does list the Hart Tor double row in the gazeteer of his book but it is under the section headed Avenues! A double and a single row each originate from two of three cairns. The double row is in good condition except at the lower end where tinning works have cut into it. The double row SX 5770 7170 is 126 m long azimuth 76 & has about 80 surviving sones. The single row SX 5771 7169 is 61 m long az 60 & has 14 stones.
Update October 2019: This stone row is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entries for the Hart Tor North Stone Row and the Hart Tor Stone Row & Cairn Circle.
The row is recorded as part of Pastscape Monument No. 440118 (Bronze Age single and double stone rows), as MV4896 (Northern row of Harter group, Walkhampton Common) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as part of Historic England List Entry No. 1020129 (Tinworks and other archaeological remains in the Meavy valley at Stanlake, Black Tor, Hart Tor and Cramber Tor).
The alignment is also featured on the Stone Rows of Great Britain - see their entry for Hart Tor, North, which includes a description, photographs of the row and the individual stones, a simplified plan stone alignments at Hart Tor with their associated cairns from surveys carried out in March 2013 and October 2014, access information and a list of online resources for more information.
The SRoGB includes an additional entry for Sea Views at Hart Tor which discusses and illustrates the views and landscape features visible from both rows at Hart Tor. They also give a link to the Meavy Valley Archaeology Site Report 9: Hart Tor Stone Rows and Cairns, dated 1999, author: Sandy Gerrard (SandyG).
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