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Summary

This stone bears the letters RHR on its southern face. The stone measures 0.89m high, 0.5m wide and 0.29m thick. The stone is situated on the southern edge of a prospecting pit. There is severe animal poaching around this stone.

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: SX67NE140
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 913169
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NE/326
• Old SAM Ref: 28773

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• BOUNDARY STONE (Constructed, Early Medieval to XIX - 1066 AD (Between) to 1900 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.

(27/08/1992) SX 66637625. An upright inscribed stone is situated on the crest of the south-facing slope of Riddon Ridge 500m east of Whiteslades House. The round-topped tapered block measures 0.9m high, 0.5m wide and 0.3m thick. The letters 'RHR' are carved 0.15m high in its southern face. It lies on the southern edge of a mound of tinners' upcast from an adjacent prospecting pit (SX 67 NE 152). A similarly inscribed stone (SX 67 NE 22) is situated in a prehistoric cairn 150m to the east while three further stones (SX 67 NE 141, 142 and 143) with different inscriptions lie at SX 67137721, SX 66567655 and
SX 66487639. Hemery (1983 522) claims that these are probably tinners' bound stones.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 152121 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(17/03/1999) SX 6660 7621 A boundary stone on Riddon Ridge standing 1365m south-south-east of Bellever Bridge.
This stone bears the letters RHR on its southern face. The stone measures 0.89m high, 0.5m wide and 0.29m thick. The stone is situated on the southern edge of a prospecting pit. There is severe animal poaching around this stone.

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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