<< Our Photo Pages >> Yar Tor NW - Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Yar Tor NW Alternative Name: Lethbridge Corndon Triple RowCountry: England County: Devon Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Nearest Town: Princetown Nearest Village: Dartmeet
Map Ref: SX6806674043 Landranger Map Number: 191
Latitude: 50.551218N Longitude: 3.863676W
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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TheCaptain visited on 11th Apr 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 3 The Yar Tor triple stone row is much clearer to see than I remember it being decades ago, when I can barely remember finding much at all. This has been helped by a lot of clearance of gorse etc. I followed the ruined triple row downhill to the north, and was pretty sure I could make out remnants of it right up to the field wall at SX67977427, further than I have seen mentioned anywhere else.
SandyG visited on 14th May 2015 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Car parking is available close to the row at SX 68224 73870. From here walk a short distance west.
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.5 Ambience: 3.5 Access: 3.5
Most probably one and the same set of rows as Yar Tor SE, but various reaves have been driven through breaking them up.
The upper end of the rows may once have started at the Moneypit cairn (SX68157385) and run downhill in a north-westerly direction to approx. SX68007415
Update August 2019: This stone row is recorded on the Stone Rows of Great Britain's website for Yar Tor, which includes a description, photographs and a plan of the row and its associated cairns. SRoGB adds: "(this is) a triple stone row measuring at least 250m long, including at least 124 mainly small-sized stones together with some medium and a few large-sized stones situated in a col between high ground to the west and east with landscape and sea view reveals" - see Sea Views at Yar Tor for details of the latter.
This row is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 442883 and scheduled as Historic England List ID 1003288 (Yar Tor stone row and adjacent cist). HE gives the co-ordinates for both ends of this triple alignment with two terminal cairns (one of which contains a cist) as SX 68066 74043 and SX 68197 73855. The Devon and Dartmoor HER also includes a record for the MDV6459 (Yar Tor Triple Stone Row).
The row is also featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website see their entry for the Yar Tor Stone Row, which includes a photograph and description, plus links to other reference sources.
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