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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Trowlesworthy West row Alternative Name: Trowlesworthy 2
Country: England County: Devon Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Plymouth
Map Ref: SX57466397 Landranger Map Number: 202
Latitude: 50.458196N Longitude: 4.009443W
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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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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 10th Dec 2023 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 The Trowlesworthy sites are well worth a visit, though rarely are - park where the road ends car park (not marked on map) and walk round by the small pond. Beautiful rows with large stones frorDartmoor . West is a single row leading from ring cairn and fairy large stones closely placed together, with large blocking stone. December 2023

Catrinm visited on 10th Dec 2023 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 3 Impressive double row which crosses the leat . Well worth a visit

Catrinm visited on 29th Jan 2022 - their rating: Cond: 4 Access: 4

SandyG visited on 16th May 2015 - their rating: Cond: 4 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: 3.75 Ambience: 4.33 Access: 3.25

**Trowlesworthy West row** submitted by ernar : Trowlesworthy W group. A bottom-up view of the Stone row. To its immediate right you can see the edge of one of the pillow mounds. (Vote or comment on this photo)

On the lower slopes of Trowlesworthy Tor, above the marshes surrounding the Blacka Brook, are found a couple of stone rows, one single and one double, each with its own cairn and circle of stones at their head.

The western of the two rows is a single row which runs away downhill in a westerly direction from its cairn and circle for a total length of 82 metres. A total of 44 stones still remain in the row, of an original total of probably about 50. The row is far from straight, curving towards the south as it progresses towards its large end stone, a 1.3 m high triangular block.

Unusually, some of the stones of the row are set across the row, rather than along it, although this may be due to difficulty in erecting the stones in the rocky ground.

Just a few metres from the southern end of the row is a large "bury" or "pillow mound" which is part of the Trowlesworthy Warren, which has remarkably been constructed without damaging the stone row. A little further away is a circular enclosure.

Update August 2019: This stone row is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Trowlesworthy W. Stone Row.

The row is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 439148 and scheduled as part of Historic England List ID 1016147 (A stone alignment, kerbed cairn, prehistoric settlement, four pillow mounds, a vermin trap and animal runs 720m south west of Great Trowlesworthy Tor).

The row also has an entry on the Devon and Dartmoor HER: MDV2415 (Stone Row 550 metres south-west of Great Trowlesworthy Tor).

The Stone Rows of Great Britain also includes a page for this site - see their entry for Trowlesworthy 2, which includes a description, a plan of the row and its associated cairn, photographs, and access information.
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