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Summary

This stone bears the letters TS on its northern face. The stone measures 0.84m high, 0.67m wide tapering to 0.49m wide at the top. The stone is up to 0.53m thick and the lettering is 0.08m high. There is severe animal poaching around this stone which forms part of an earlier Prehistoric boundary wall.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1018930: Two irregular aggregate field systems with associated settlements, part of a coaxial field system, boundary stones and historic fields on Riddon Ridge

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67NE143
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 913274
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NE/325
• Old SAM Ref: 28773

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• BOUNDARY STONE (Constructed, Post Medieval to Early 20th Century - 1540 AD (Between) to 1901 AD (Between))

Full description

Hemery, E., 1983, High Dartmoor, 522 (Monograph). SDV249702.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1987-1993, Duchy Farms Project Survey Visit, S. Probert (Report - Survey). SDV350839.

(07/09/1992) SX 6648 7639. An inscribed stone located in a reave on the crest of the western flank of Riddon Ridge 400m east-north-east of Whiteslades House. The flat-topped moorland block measures 0.8m high and 0.45m thick. It bears the inscription 'TS' in letters 0.09m high in its north face. An erosion hollow 0.2m deep has formed on the northern side of the stone. A similarly inscribed stone (SX 67 NE 142) lies 180m to the north-east and three other stones (SX 67 NE 22, 140 and 141) with different inscriptions lie in the area of Riddon Ridge. Hemery (1983) suggests that they are tinners' bound stones.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 152120, 17/03/1999 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

SX 6646 7636 A boundary stone on Riddon Ridge standing 1160m south-south-east of Bellever Bridge.
This stone bears the letters TS on its northern face. The stone measures 0.84m high, 0.67m wide tapering to 0.49m wide at the top. The stone is up to 0.53m thick and the lettering is 0.08m high. There is severe animal poaching around this stone which forms part of an earlier Prehistoric boundary wall.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8296 - Dartmeet Premier Archaeological Landscape (PAL) Field Investigation Project
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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