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Summary

Stone setting on the west side of Challacombe stone row probably erected in the 19th century but possibly using stones from the destroyed northern end of the prehistoric stone row

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1021340: Tinworks, field systems, settlements, warren, cairns and a stone alignment at Headland Warren

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SE/39
• Old SAM County Ref: 344

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• STONE SETTING (Constructed, XVIII to XIX - 1701 AD (Between) to 1900 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Not shown on 19th century map.

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map (Cartographic). SDV325644.

'Stone Row' shown on early 20th ceentury map as a mainly double row with a dense group of stones at the northern end.

Brailsford, J. W., 1938, Bronze Age Stone Monuments of Dartmoor, 463-4, Figure 5 (Article in Serial). SDV304210.

Turner, J. R., 1990, Ring Cairns, Stone Circles and Related Monuments on Dartmoor, 81 (Article in Serial). SDV229817.

Stone circle on Challacombe Down. On west side of triple stone row. 8.0 meters in diameter. 13 stones in restored circle. Other details: G20.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 19-20, Map 24, Figure 24.4 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Group of some fourteen stones re-erected in the haphazard position in which they were found making a very strange arrangement. Possibly these were the final stones form the lost north end of the Challacombe stone rows, dragged here by the 'Old Men' excavating Chaw Gully who were always respectful of the antiquities in the vicinity of their workings.

English Heritage, 2005-2008, Prehistoric Survey Information (Cartographic). SDV345521.

Group of stones shown on survey on the west side of the stone row.

Cartographic Engineering, 2006, Dartmoor 2006 1:1250 Aerial Photography (digital) (Aerial Photograph). SDV345590.

Group of stones visible on aerial potograph.

Historic England, 2022, National Heritage List for England, 1021340 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364675.

Towards the northern end of the stone row is a grouping of stones which may indicate a fourth row, but is more likely to be the result of partial reconstruction in the 19th century.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7139 - Headland Warren and the Birch Tor and Vitifer Mines Survey (Ref: A1/20/2001, A1/34/2002)

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