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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: White Ridge stone row Alternative Name: Great Stannon row; Stannon Stone RowCountry: England County: Devon Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Princetown Nearest Village: Postbridge
Map Ref: SX65408156 Landranger Map Number: 191
Latitude: 50.618172N Longitude: 3.90401W
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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TheCaptain visited on 3rd May 2022 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 2 From the Stannon Newtake cairn with cist, I head north to the boundary wall where it is indicated on the map that the south end of White Ridge stone row is to be found (before it was discovered to run much further down the hill, which I didn't know at the time). Using my GPS I found the correct spot, and saw a couple of possible stones, then looking back south into the newtake, I could see s cleared strip of land going right down to where the cairn I couldn't get to is situated. Walking northwards, I noticed a sort of pathway which I followed, and found a few small stones, then saw a couple standing out against the horizon, confirming I was walking along the line of the stone row. I followed this north up to the top cairn, which is very denuded, but has several stones which can be made out. I have seen the stone row described as "one of the least impressive stone rows on the moor", but it has a few decent sections, and I have visited much worse.
SandyG visited on 16th May 2015 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 5 Access: 3 Car parking is available at SX 66841 80585. From here take the track leading north and follow to SX 65651 81538. Cross into the newtake and head west for about 250m. The southern part of the row can be reached via a stile.
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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2 Ambience: 4 Access: 2.5
The end of the row has no obvious termination [Pastscape has it at SX65398146; 50.617271, -3.9041145; just south of the boundary wall].
The elevation of the cairn from the bottom of the row is 3 degrees. The true azimuth of the row is 7 degrees giving a declination of 42. A trawl through astronomical objects around Bronze Age times suggests that the star Arcturus would graze the cairn twice a year around 1850BC when viewed from the bottom of the row. This is not proof of any thing of course but it is interesting. There are other N/S rows on Dartmoor that seem to be aligned in a similar manner on this star. Arcturus is the second brightest star in the Northen skies after Sirius. It never set here at that time it was circumpolar. The fact that the cairn horizon is 162m away means that the star would not seem to extinguish as it neared the horizon as it would if the horizon was distant. - Interesting!
Update August 2019: This row is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the White Ridge Stone Row.
The row is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 443808, which tells us: "(this row is) fairly well preserved for a short distance from the cairn, hut dilapidated to an increasing degree as the newtake mall is approached to the South". The row is also scheduled as Historic England List ID 1019265, which tells us the stone alignment and cairn are "situated on a gentle south facing slope overlooking the valley of the Stannon Brook". The Devon and Dartmoor HER also includes an entry: MDV6642 (Alignment).
The row is also featured on the Stone Rows of Great Britain website: White Ridge (also known as Stannon), which includes a description, photographs, two plans of the row and its associated features, plus a discussion (with illustrations) of the landscape reveals which appear/disappear as you walk along the row.
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