More information : SX 58136756 Remains of a stone row. (1) Nothing there. (2) (SX 58126753) Situated 130.5m north of an enclosed plantation on the northwest side of Ditsworthy Warren, on a west-facing slope at 305m )D, a double row of stones can be seen (with some selectivity) running up the slope, nine in one row, four in the other, totalling 39.0m in length. (see illus card). Its orientation is 86o from true north at the west end of the row. Several of the stones are level with the ground and none is more than 0.2m high. The maximum deviation from a straight line between the stones at each end is 0.1m. This is probably the row seen by Breton but is not entirely convincing, being in an area where there is a considerable amount of protruding stone and lacking any cairn/standing stone/Blocking feature, etc., at either end. Surveyed at 1:10 000 on PFD for AO records only. (3)
This feature lies at SX58116752 on a W-facing hillslope which is generally stone free and under close-cropped grass with some heather. There are a number of sub-surface linear stony bands or lines of geological origin which protrude through the turf and run down this gentle slope on a roughly NE/SW orientation.
The stones identified here as a stone row(s) appear to be a part of this geological formation and consequently are of very doubtful archaeological origin. (4)
Probably a natural feature. (5) |