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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Sharpitor NW single rowCountry: England County: Devon Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Princetown Nearest Village: Walkhampton
Map Ref: SX5567170601 Landranger Map Number: 202
Latitude: 50.517353N Longitude: 4.037191W
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 |
0 | No data. |
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 |
0 | no data |
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markj99 visited on 28th Nov 2017 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 4 The Sharpitor NW Stone Rows are easily visited by parking at SX 55707 70679, adjacent to a pool S of the B3212. The stones are mostly small and hidden under the moorland vegetation. The rows are delineated by a few exposed stones.
SandyG visited on 13th May 2015 - their rating: Cond: 1 Amb: 4 Access: 5 This is a very accessible stone row. Car parking is available very close to the row at SX 55678 70644.
TimPrevett have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 1.5 Ambience: 3.5 Access: 4.5
At the eastern end of the double row (Sharpitor North West 1) is the remains of a single row, at a slight angle to the double row, but this row is very ruinous.
Beyond the downhill ends of these rows is a nice little cairn which survives in a much better condition, with remains of a central cist, and a surrounding stone kerb.
Update November 2019: This single stone row, which runs for 133m and includes at least 30 small and medium stones, is included on the Stone Rows of Great Britain - see their entry for Sharpitor, North West 2, which includes a description, a plan of both rows at this location with their blocking stone and associated cairns, photographs of the alignment, access information and a list of online resources for more information.
The SRoGB includes a separate entry for Sea Views at Sharpitor NW 2, which discusses and illustrates the viewpoints and landscape features which comes into (and out of) view as you progress along the row.
The row is also featured on Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) - see their entries for the Sharpitor N.W. 2 Stone Row and the Sharpitor area Stone Rows and Cists.
The row is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 440366, as MDV3761 (Single stone row 350 meters north-west of Sharpitor) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER and scheduled as part of Historic England List ID 1007422 (Two stone alignments and a round cairn 390m NW of Sharpitor).
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