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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Stalldon Row Alternative Name: The Cornwood Maidens, Stalldown Row
Country: England County: Devon Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Ivybridge Nearest Village: Cornwood
Map Ref: SX63236248 Landranger Map Number: 202
Latitude: 50.446179N Longitude: 3.927661W
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 Ambience:

5	Superb
4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
0	No data.

5 Access:

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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3 Accuracy:

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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Catrinm visited on 2nd Nov 2024 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 3 A reminder this site is spectacular even as this time in the mist. Huge stones for moor. not a sould there ( via Burford row) and back

Catrinm visited on 19th Nov 2022 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 2

Catrinm visited on 30th Mar 2019 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 2 A nlog walk but worth it after a number of aborted trip ( sewage work gates being shut etc)

graemefield visited on 2nd Feb 2018 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 2

markj99 visited on 1st Dec 2017 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 3 There are two main difficulties in visiting Stalldown Row and its associated cairns: 1. Navigating the maze of narrow roads to Stall Moor. 2. Finding a safe place to park up safely close to Stall Moor Once you have completed these two tasks the walk to Stalldown Stone Row is a picnic.

SandyG visited on 6th Apr 2013 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 3 When visited in 2013 car parking was available at SX 62524 61120. Recently (2016) this car parking area has been closed making it much more difficult to access this part of the moor. The alternative car parking location is at SX 64342 59548. From here the easiest way to reach the row is probably to head north alongside the River Erme which will need to be crossed at some point. A decent map and reliable GPS will be essential.

Bladup TheCaptain cazzyjane have visited here

Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.67 Ambience: 5 Access: 2.5

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**Stalldon Row** submitted by StoneLee : Stalldon Row is spectacular. (Vote or comment on this photo)

This magnificent stone row stretches for over 500 metres in a north to south direction, mostly up the southern slopes of Stalldon Barrow hill, but with its northerly end just over the top of hill, and starting to wander back down the northern hillside.

The northern end of the row (SX637607) has 4 wonderful large (2 metres plus) stones still standing, with a further two large slabs fallen at the northern end, one of which was possibly a large side set slab forming a blocking stone. These four large stones can be seen from miles away all over the southern moor, and look in many ways like four walkers on the hilltop. The rest of the row consists of stones mostly just about a metre high, but some are quite a bit more. There’s a horse skull placed on top of one of the stones when I visited, which really sets it off nicely.

The row is not very straight, nor is the spacing of the stones very regular, and indeed looks to be perhaps two rows meeting at a circular cairn structure, of diameter 5 metres, and including two large pillars, just to the south of the hilltop. The northern part of the row aligns to the centre of the cairn circle, while the row to the south passes besides the western side of this cairn, before running off down the steep hillside to the south.

The lower part of the row seems to terminate at a large side set slab (SX637602) but it is possible that the original row continued for several hundred more metres to a cairn, and several buried slabs are to be found which may once have been part of the row.

Quite how much of today’s standing row is original is open to debate, as the whole structure underwent a “restoration” in about 1897, so it is possible that the misalignment of the two parts is not an original feature, and that the original structure was a much more straight and evenly spaced row.

Apart from the circular cairn beside the row near the top of the hill, there are several other cairns around and about on the hill here, one or two of which can still be seen to have their central cists in place.

This stone row is fantastic. It moves up into the top 5 stone rows I know, and perhaps my favourite stone row on Dartmoor. It is not only a tremendous row of big stones marching over the top of the hill, but sat by the central circular cairn, the views are superb. To the north, the wild moorland stretches off into the distance, while to the south, way below, are all the patchwork of fields of south Devon and then the beautiful blue sea. Plymouth sound, with its ships can clearly be seen to the south west.

Magnificent.

Update November 2019: This alignment is featured on the Stone Rows of Great Britain website - see their entry for Stalldown, which includes a description, a plan of the row and its associated cairns, photographs of the alignment and some of its individual stones and cairns, access information and a list of online resources for more information.

The SRoGB also includes an additional page to discuss and illustrate the Sea Views at Stalldown.

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) also features a page for this row - see their entries for the Stalldown Stone Row and the Stalldown Stone Row and Terminal Cairn.

The row is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 442211, as MDV4277 (Stone Row on Stalldown, Cornwood) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1015806 (Stone alignment and cairns on Stalldown).

Note: Site visit report and lots of pictures of this most magnificent stone row, on southern Dartmoor. Perhaps the best stone row in the land.
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1.9km ESE 107° Sharp Tor North East* Stone Row / Alignment (SX65006188)
1.9km ESE 110° Sharp Tor cairn* Cairn (SX65006179)
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