<< Our Photo Pages >> Laughter Tor row 1 - Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Laughter Tor row 1 Alternative Name: Laugher Tor 1; Laughter Tor E; Laughter Man; Butler (map 28.12.1)Country: England County: Devon Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Nearest Town: Princetown Nearest Village: Two Bridges
Map Ref: SX65377532 Landranger Map Number: 191
Latitude: 50.562081N Longitude: 3.902171W
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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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 |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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TheCaptain visited on 18th Sep 2020 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Now I am nearly back to Dunnabridge, time to sit in the sun for a rest to take in the views and finish my supplies. Damn, I have left the fruit in the car! The stone row should be just along a bit more then up on my right. There it is, but it’s a struggle to get to it from here through the heather and gorse. The row which is a double row of some 160m in length remains with a good section at each end but with very few stones remaining in between. The bottom dozen or so of stones are clear to be found, including a possible end stone, making a double row which leads up to the hillside to the longstone, of which only the top can be seen in the distance. The track of the row has been very roughly cleared of vegetation, and although it is good to have it cleared, it looks like quite a bit of damage has been done to the ground, and possibly some of the remaining intermediate stones damaged. Most of the intermediate section of the alignment has probably been used to build the wall which I now have to cross to get to the top part, of which about a dozen stones make a reasonable section well before the longstone.
SandyG visited on 26th Apr 2013 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Car parking is available at SX 64577 74591. From here take the bridleway north westward for about 900m. Take the path towards the tall stone at the upper end of the row. The Laughter Tor 2 row is situated very close to the upper end of Laughter Tor 1 row and depending on vegetation conditions may be visible.
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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 4 Access: 3.5
Laugher Tor row 1, a double stone row, starts near the Longstone which is 2.4m high, and the row is 164 m long. Only the top & bottom section of the row can be seen. Near the longstone there are 8 small stones then a 120m gap with 14 stones at the lower end. I show two pics one from the longstone looking downhill & SE & one uphill towards the longstone to the NW. [The Laugher Tor 2stone row now has its own site page - see the 'nearby sites' list below.]
This standing stone and stone rows are recorded as:
Pastscape Monument No. 442476 (Standing Stone and double stone row); and
MDV53417 (Double stone row - query same as MDV6002?) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER.
The rows and standing stone are also scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1021047 (Two double stone alignments, cairn and standing stone 700m south west of Laughter Hole Farm).
The stone and stone row also features on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks website - see their entries for the Laughtor Man Standing Stone, and the Laughter Tor E. Stone Row. Also see PDW's separate webpage for the Laughter Tor Stone Row
The Stone Rows of Great Britain also includes an entry for Laughter Tor 1, which includes a description, photographs, plans of the row, and illustrations of how the viewpoints change as you move along row 1.
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161m WNW 290° Laughter Tor Longstone* Standing Stone (Menhir) (SX65227538)
180m WNW 288° Laughter Tor row 2* Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue (SX65207538)
908m SSE 168° Huccaby Rings Outer* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX6554474428)
1.0km SW 226° Dunnabridge Pound* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX64617462)
1.3km WNW 284° Bellever Tor 10* Cist (SX64077568)
1.5km NNW 339° Bellever Tor NE Settlement* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX64867675)
1.6km NW 306° Bellever Tor 2* Cairn (SX6414076270)
1.6km WNW 288° Bellever Tor 6* Cist (SX63897585)
1.6km SSE 161° Huccaby Rings Inner* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX6585473819)
1.6km WNW 283° Bellever Tor 8 Cairn (SX63847572)
1.6km WNW 295° Bellever Tor 3* Cairn (SX63917606)
1.7km WNW 294° Bellever Tor 4* Ring Cairn (SX63867603)
1.7km SSW 198° Sherberton stepping stones* Ancient Trackway (SX64817370)
1.7km NW 310° Bellever Tor Cairn one* Cist (SX6408976465)
1.7km NNW 328° Bellever Tor N Settlement* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX64487682)
1.8km W 273° Bellever Tor 9* Cist (SX63587546)
2.0km WNW 301° Black Newtake Enclosure Ancient Village or Settlement (SX63707636)
2.0km NNW 339° Lakehead Hill Cairn 8* Cairn (SX6471777178)
2.1km NNW 337° Lakehead Hill South Hut Circle* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX6459177291)
2.2km NNW 341° Lakehead Hill Cairn 7* Cairn (SX6471477389)
2.2km NNW 341° Lakehead Hill SE Stone Row* Stone Row / Alignment (SX64707740)
2.3km NNW 328° Lakehead Hill South West Stone Row / Alignment (SX64187730)
2.3km E 91° Sherwell Long Barrow* Long Barrow (SX677752)
2.4km NNW 333° Lakehead Hill 6* Cairn (SX6435877467)
2.4km NNW 333° Lakehead Hill 5* Stone Circle (SX6434677486)
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