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Penn Beacon SE
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Penn Beacon SE submitted by SandyG on 6th Oct 2014. The stone row with china clay workings in the background. View from north east.
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Penn Beacon NE
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Collard Tor W
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Collard Tor W submitted by SandyG on 27th Sep 2014. The western row. Natural clitter makes it more difficult to see this row. View from north along the row.
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Collard Tor E
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Collard Tor E submitted by SandyG on 27th Sep 2014. The eastern row without labels. View from north west.
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Drizzlecombe W row
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Drizzlecombe W row submitted by Anne T on 15th Jul 2019. In trying to identify this elusive row, Sandy asked members of the group to stand on stones they thought might be part of the stone row. From foreground to background: Janet Daynes, Dave Parks (Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks), Gordon Fisher (just off to the right) and Sandy G. Sandy G is walking down the line of stones. He is planning a return trip later in the year to take a closer look.
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Black Tor (Meavy)
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Black Tor (Meavy) submitted by Brian Byng on 7th Feb 2002.
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Cantrell
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Cantrell submitted by Brian Byng on 7th Feb 2002. Cantrell.
This double stone row @ SX 6570 5717 has a cairn at the upper end
which is on the skyline when viewed from the lower end of the row. The ruined cairn is 8m
diameter & has a single slab at the centre in a hollow. Perhaps the remains of a burial kist. The row is 48m long with an azimuth of 45 degrees.
Strangely this row is aligned diagonally across the slope of the hill. It does not follow the natural contour of the downhill slope. The horizon height of the
cairn from the bot...
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Cut Hill Stone Row
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Cut Hill Stone Row submitted by Andy B on 10th Apr 2010. Granite Stone Row
Here is the roof of Dartmoor, from the top you can see right all across Dartmoor. In the picture is a piece of granite probably Megalithic in age and is in a series of stones running along the top of this hill. This row is unique within Dartmoor as it the only one with equal spacing within the row and above 600m, 100m above any other row in Dartmoor. The peat has washed away from around the stone but not from underneath, meaning the granite sticks out above the ground.
C...
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Higher White Tor stone row
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Higher White Tor stone row submitted by cazzyjane on 9th Jan 2013. Higher White Tor Stone row. Looking down towards Longaford Tor.
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Leeden Tor
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Leeden Tor submitted by Brian Byng on 7th Feb 2002. Leeden Tor - Cairn at upper end SX 5653 7147.
A scrappy row 107 m long but with only 4 stones still upright. Cairn 6m dia
with large central pit. Runs NW - SE with cairn at uphill N W end. The cairn
Has a reeve cutting across it and the row has another reeve cutting across.
Reeve - local word for a prehitoric field boundary maade from roughly
assembled granite blocks now sometimes only traces exist as here. Reeve
building on Dartmoor circa 1400 BC. Seems likely that the rows pred...
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Shell Top South-West stone row
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Shell Top South-West stone row submitted by SandyG on 13th Mar 2015. The fallen terminal pillar at the northern end of the row (2nd May 2013).
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Hanging Stone (Lee Moor)
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Hanging Stone (Lee Moor) submitted by davep on 23rd Oct 2019. The Hanging Stone Standing Stone from the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website. Photograph taken 25th August 2017
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Little Links Tor
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Little Links Tor submitted by SandyG on 13th Jan 2018. Stone 3. View from north. This stone measures 0.76m long by 0.23m wide, stands up to 0.61m high and is orientated at 107°.
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Longstone Hill stone
Date Added: 21st Aug 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Aug 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Longstone Hill stone submitted by TheCaptain on 21st Aug 2024. It certainly looks like a shaped menhir to me, and not just a piece of granite!
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Log Text: After passing the large ring cairn, heading down from Yes Tor to Longstone Hill, there is no semblance of a pathway, but luckily the visibility is now good, and I can clearly see where I am heading towards, and the trackways across it. Its not too bad going down, and once on Longstone Hill, I find the fallen longstone fairly easily. It certainly looks like a shaped menhir to me, and not just a piece of granite!
White Ridge stone row
Date Added: 4th Jun 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 3rd May 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 2
White Ridge stone row submitted by Brian Byng on 7th Feb 2002. White Ridge.
A double row @ SX 6541 8165 167m lg descending the hill from a ruined 8m dia
cairn. 41 stones still show. The cairn is on the skyline when viewed from the
bottom of the row. The end of the row has no obvious termination. The
elevation of the cairn from the bottom of the row is 3 degrees. The true
azimuth of the row is 7 degrees giving a declination of 42. A trawl through
astronomical objects around Bronze Age times suggests that the star Arcturus
would graze the cair...
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Log Text: From the Stannon Newtake cairn with cist, I head north to the boundary wall where it is indicated on the map that the south end of White Ridge stone row is to be found (before it was discovered to run much further down the hill, which I didn't know at the time). Using my GPS I found the correct spot, and saw a couple of possible stones, then looking back south into the newtake, I could see s cleared strip of land going right down to where the cairn I couldn't get to is situated. Walking northwards, I noticed a sort of pathway which I followed, and found a few small stones, then saw a couple standing out against the horizon, confirming I was walking along the line of the stone row. I followed this north up to the top cairn, which is very denuded, but has several stones which can be made out. I have seen the stone row described as "one of the least impressive stone rows on the moor", but it has a few decent sections, and I have visited much worse.
Trendlebere Down
Date Added: 9th Mar 2023
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 7th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Trendlebere Down submitted by AngieLake on 10th Aug 2010. First view of Trendlebere Down stone row on approach from the road. Orientated N-S, the south end is to far right here.
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Log Text: Getting from the road to find this row is a bit of a struggle through gorse and heather, and I initially found it hard to find. But there it is, not quite where I was expecting to find it, but as so often with a path running down beside it, and it has had much of the growth mechanically cleared from it. The large cairn at the top is completely overgrown, as is the top of the row, but I found a few fairly large fallen stones hidden underneath the overgrowth. Further down, the row becomes more cleared, but the stones are smaller, mostly flat on the ground, and many have been substantially damaged by the mechanical machines used to clear the gorse and heather. The bottom end again becomes lost in high vegetation. Amongst the disturbance is a large stone, facing across the rows, which looks as though it may have once been a terminal blocking stone. All in all a disappointment.
Tottiford Reservoir
Date Added: 12th Sep 2022
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 7th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Tottiford Reservoir submitted by TheCaptain on 8th Sep 2022. With the drought of 2022 now exposing the stone circle in Tottiford reservoir, I went down for an exploration yesterday. Despite overnight storms making the lakebed very wet, slippery and muddy, I was able to walk to the circle, and around most of it. My footprints make out the circle relatively clearly.
I didn't make notes, and from memory I was able to identify about 10 stones in the mud. Just a quick forst photo uploaded from my phone. In time I will sort out what I have taken.
Des...
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Log Text: With the drought of 2022 now exposing the stone circle in Tottiford reservoir for only the second time in 150 years, I went down for an exploration. Despite overnight storms making the lakebed very wet, slippery and muddy, I was able to walk to the circle, and around most of it. Despite getting very wet and muddy feet, and slipping several times, I managed to make it back to dry land without falling flat in the mud!
The northern single, and double southern stone rows were clear, but surrounded by too much wet mud to walk along them for any distance.
I was really pleased with myself for getting to visit this circle, as I never thought I would even see it, let alone be able to have a proper visit.
High Willhays kerb cairn
Date Added: 19th Aug 2024
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Aug 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 2
High Willhays kerb cairn submitted by Bladup on 5th Oct 2014. High Willhays prehistoric kerb cairn with the modern cairn behind on top of the Tor.
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Log Text: From Fordsland Ledge its relatively easy going up to High Willhays, but in a bit of a mist at times which makes me slightly concerned about navigation further on when there will be no obvious trackway. Hard to figure out what exactly this is. There are several side set slabs standing proud just to the east of the top outcrop with its marker cairn on top. It is hard to tell whether these are the remains of a large kerb, or perhaps an internal structure, as in some views it looks to be two parallel rows of slabs.
Leeden Hill
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Leeden Hill submitted by Anne T on 19th Sep 2016. The Leedon Hill Standing stone, submitted on behalf of Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks.
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Harbourne Head Standing Stone
Date Added: 8th Mar 2023
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 24th Feb 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Harbourne Head Standing Stone submitted by Bladup on 18th Jan 2016. Harbourne Head Standing Stone.
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Log Text: A cold grey February afternoon walk out onto the moor to visit the Harbourne Head menhir. It’s a nice pointy topped stone, slightly taller than me and leaning to one side. Some swaling going on nearby, but not close to the stone and doesn't prevent me getting a visit.