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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: White Ladder Alternative Name: WhiteladderCountry: England County: Devon Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Nearest Town: Barnstaple Nearest Village: Brayford
Map Ref: SS7337337076 Landranger Map Number: 180
Latitude: 51.118937N Longitude: 3.810603W
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 |
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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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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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SandyG visited on 2nd Aug 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5 Roadside car parking is available next to the row at SS 73238 37254. This site is best visited after a prolonged period of dry weather when the rushes have been cut. The gateway leading to the site has subsequently been blocked and access to the field may now be along the road to the south.
TimPrevett mdensham have visited here
During 2006 the particularly dry conditions caused peat shrinkage and this has in turn led to the re-emergence of the Whiteladder Stone Row on Five Barrows Hill, At least 4 pairs of stones not visible in May 2006 had emerged by the end of the summer, confirming that Whiteladder is a double stone row of local slate and lumps of white quartz.
Like the Warcombe Water Stone Row, Whiteladder probably dates from the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age.
Tim Prevett adds: Quartz stones are everywhere, scattered around loose on the ground. Thanks to the book Ancient Exmoor, I was able to follow these quartz rocks on through the hedge at the back of the photo, across the road and into the field the other side, and for several hundred yards distance after the road. Photo, visit & text by Roger Gay, South Molton, Devon.
See details from Exmoor National Park Historic Environment Record (ENPHER).
Update August 2019: This stone row is included in the Stone Rows of Great Britain's website - see their entry for White Ladder, which includes a description, a plan of the row, plus photographs of the row and its individual stones.
The SRoGB notes: "It is shown in the wrong location on Ordnance Survey maps (which) has meant that doubts have in the past been expressed regarding its identification. There can be little doubt that there is a prehistoric stone row at this location".
The row is also scheduled as Historic England List ID 1002648 (Stone row N of Five Barrows Hill).
For access information see Sandy G's site visit report.
Note: See the links on our page to download the book Ancient Exmoor (1983) by amateur archaeologist Hazel Eardley-Wilmot (1910 - 1998)
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