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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Cholwichtown stone row Alternative Name: Cholwich Town Waste stone row; Cholwichtown Stone RowCountry: England County: Devon Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Plymouth Nearest Village: Lee Moor
Map Ref: SX585623 Landranger Map Number: 202
Latitude: 50.443439N Longitude: 3.994169W
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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As is fairly normal for Dartmoor stone rows, this row had a circle of stones at the higher end, made with 8 stones with a diameter of about 5 metres. The stone row ran downhill from here at an orientation of 22°, the spacing of the stones being variable, the size of the stones was mostly about a metre in length, the largest was 2 metres tall unusually being in the middle.
Much damage had happened to the row before the excavation, thought to have mostly been in 1848, with less than half of its stones remaining at the time, and its large terminal menhir, recorded at 3.7 metres tall, being completely missing.
Unfortunately during the excavations, nothing at all was found which could provide a date for the row, but pollen analysis suggested that it was erected in a woodland glade.
Update August 2019: This stone row, now covered by china clay waste, is featured on Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) - see their entry for the Cholwich Town Stone Row.
The row is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 439202 (Stone Row and Cairn Circle (site of)) and as Devon & Dartmoor HER MDV2438 (Alignment).
The Stone Rows of Great Britain also includes an entry for this now destroyed row: Cholwichtown, which includes a description, a plan of the row and historic photographs of the row from 1914 and 1940.
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1.0km N 4° Lee Moor Settlement* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX586633)
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1.0km ENE 78° Penn Beacon 1 Cairn Circle & Cist* Cairn (SX5953262482)
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1.4km ENE 71° Penn Beacon NE Stone Row / Alignment (SX598627)
1.4km N 353° Lee Moor South* Stone Row / Alignment (SX5835963682)
1.4km N 353° Hanging Stone (Lee Moor)* Standing Stone (Menhir) (SX58376371)
1.4km NE 36° Shell Top South West* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX59386344)
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1.9km NNW 329° Trowlesworthy West circle* Stone Circle (SX57556398)
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2.0km NNW 327° Trowlesworthy West row* Stone Row / Alignment (SX57466397)
2.0km NE 39° Shell Top Cairn Circle Ring Cairn (SX5983063830)
2.0km ENE 77° High-house Waste Ancient Village or Settlement (SX60506270)
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