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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Trowlesworthy East rowCountry: England County: Devon Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Nearest Town: Plymouth Nearest Village: Yelverton
Map Ref: SX57626383 Landranger Map Number: 202
Latitude: 50.456977N Longitude: 4.007137W
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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 |
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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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Catrinm visited on 29th Jan 2022 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Fab meandering double row
SandyG visited on 16th May 2015 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Car parking is available at SX 57055 63069. From here take the track leading north east which follows the northern edge of the Whitehill Yeo china clay pit. Follow this track to SX 57717 63693 then head north alongside the leat for about 280m at which point Trowlesworthy Row 1 will be reached. Trowlesworthy Row 2 is a short distance further on below the leat.
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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4.5 Ambience: 4 Access: 3.5
The eastern of the two rows is a splendid double avenue which runs away diagonally across the hillside in a southerly direction from its cairn and circle for a length of 127 metres. Most of the original stones still remain of the avenue, spaced at a distance of between one and 1.8 metres apart from each other, with intervals between the paired stones also varying between 1 and 2 metres. The stones are generally much larger than those used in many of the Dartmoor avenues.
A couple of leats cut through the avenue, the higher one now dry and largely filled in, but the lower of the leats is still very wide and deep carrying water to the Lee Moor clayworks. Apart from having cut away a couple of rows of stones, it provides a formidable barrier to cross when following the line of the avenue, I had to walk several hundred metres along the leat before I was able to cross!
The avenue is not straight, for most of its length not being in direct alignment with its terminal cairn and circle. The lower end of the avenue is now lost within some medieval tin streaming works, but the stones down here are fairly large and may indicate that the end of the row would not be too far away. Two or three more standing stones can be seen within the tinning works, which may indicate where the row used to run.
Not far away to the southwest stands a large pillar, possibly once a terminal end stone for the rows, but possibly a more modern post of some kind erected here.
from Tom Bullock
"Row Length: 416 feet, Number of stones: 110 of 120
This impressive, and generally complete, 416-foot avenue leads N to join the 22-foot diameter Trowsleworthy Warren E circle. It is 4 feet 6 inches wide, but was not precisely laid out, running well W of the cairn center until curving towards it at the upper end."
Update August 2019: This stone row is featured on both the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Trowlesworthy E. Stone Row and the Stone Rows of Great Britain website's page for Trowlesworthy 1.
More information can be found at Pastscape Monument No. 439217, and the Devon & Dartmoor HER MDV2421 (Stone row 440 metres south of Great Trowlesworthy Tor). The row is also scheduled as Historic England List ID 1012114 (Double stone alignment with a terminal stone setting south of Great Trowlesworthy Tor).
The SRoGB, in addition to including a description, a plan of the row and photographs, includes a separate entry for Sea Views at Trowlesworthy 1, which describes how views of the sea are visible from parts of the row, but not from others.
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