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Summary

Supposed stone row (not an antiquity).

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66SW22
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442226
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SW/134

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• STONE ALIGNMENT (XVIII to Early 20th Century - 1751 AD (Between) to 1901 AD (Between))

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV147970.

Des=nvq/pers comm/(22/3/1995)/notes in smr. Vis=unconfirmed alignment. Evidently no os survey because modern, yet report implies it exists in plantation, but gives no details. No carrieageway now exists; nearest track 300m nw. Vague recollection of site in dense laurel growth. Worth reference not located (nvq).

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX66SW22 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV147969.

(27/08/1977) These stones, an average 0.7m by 0.4m and 0.6m high, lie in a straight line parellel to a modern ditch and track on a gentle, clitter strewn slope at 305m above OD. Many of the stones have been drilled and split prior to their setting up, and further stones, of similar nature, follow a sinuous course, parellel to the track for about 400m to SX 62526171, and therefore these stones cannot be regarded as an antiquity.
Worth states they were moved to make a carriageway in 19th century:
These were stones removed to one side of the track to allow a carriage to pass during the 19th century at the order of Lord Blatchford. The writer is very much mistaken in thinking this is a stone row (10/12/1948). He refers to an anonymous/undated reference that was the original source for this 'stone row':
(SX 62436209 - SX 62516195) Remains of stone row. Thirty one stones in 530 feet, orientated northwest to southeast. Gap of 108 feet in middle.

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.

Not visible on NMR photos.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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