<< Our Photo Pages >> Sherberton Row - Stone Row / Alignment in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Sherberton RowCountry: England County: Devon Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Princetown Nearest Village: Hexworthy
Map Ref: SX63917336 Landranger Map Number: 191
Latitude: 50.544126N Longitude: 3.922055W
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 11th Apr 2019 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 3 Very little remains of this stone row, just to the north of the Sherberton stone circle. A few little stumps of stone can be found, but not enough to determine either end, or even whether it is a single or double row. I counted 11 stones. WP61 at north end.
SandyG visited on 23rd Feb 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Tiny stones make this row very difficult to find.
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.5 Ambience: 3.5 Access: 3
An unimpressive row with the stones barely showing above the turf. It runs almost N/S & can be traced for about 100m. It appears to be aligned on the large adjacent Sherberton Stone Circle to the south. The discovery of a row in association with another stone circle on Dartmoor raises the possibility that more of the stone circles that now stand alone may have had rows.
Update November 2019: More information about this alignment can be found on the Stone Rows of Great Britain website - see their entry for Sherberton Row, which includes a description, a plan of the row, photographs of the alignment and some of its very small individual stones, access information and a list of online resources for more information.
The SRoGB adds: "The surviving length of the stone row is situated on a north facing hill. It may once have extended as far as a stone circle situated just over the brow of the hill on a gentle south facing slope. Both the row and the stone circle are situated within enclosed farmland and as a result have been damaged".
The row is also included on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Sherberton Stone Row, which tells us this double stone row was discovered in 1997.
Whilst there is no entry for this row on Pastscape, it is included in the Devon and Dartmoor HER as MDC6426 (Site of stone row, Sherberton Common). The monument is not scheduled.
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