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Summary

A group of four edge set stones standing up to 1 metre high, situated to the southeast of the cairn, represent the remains of a stone alignment.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1021339: Coaxial fields, prehistoric settlement, two cairns and a stone alignment in Little Stannon Newtake, 900m south east of Stannon Tor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68SE125
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 917480
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SE/84/1
• Old SAM Ref: 34498.01

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• STANDING STONE (Constructed, Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))
• STONE ALIGNMENT (Constructed, Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

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

(05/02/1989) SX 6534 8108. Three of Burnard's four stones are visible. Two approximately 2m. N. of a reave are upright slabs, 0.8m and 1m. high, and about 0.6m wide and 0.15m. thick. They are 0.6m. apart, the western one aligned E. to W. and that to the E. aligned more NE. to SW. The third stone, to the N. of the western one, aligned N. to S., is only 0.2m. high.
Greeves and Robinson (see below) interpret the stones as the southern end of the Stannon Row (SX 68 SE 22), perhaps because of their exceptional size. On their survey stones are depicted as an intermittent double row extending northwards from here to the newtake boundary. These cannot now be recognised and consequently there is a gap of 390m.
It is reasonably certain that at least the two uprights fall within a prehistoric context but, as currently visible, their purpose seems conjectural.
"46 feet south of the cairn (SX 68 SE 23) are two standing stones, 2.5 feet high, their broad planes facing the cairn. These, and two others in line, suggest the remains of a stone row, destroyed for materials for an ancient hedge. If a row, it does not point to the centre of the cairn" (citing TDA and Greeves, T + Robinson, R., undated).

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 169, 235, Map 35, Figure 35.13 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Stannon Newtake double stone row at SX65318111 with four stones of an average height of 0.5 metres. Two stones of 0.9 metres and 0.6 metres high are apparently associated with the nearby cairn. A smaller stone at an angle is located nearer the cairn and the top of another shows above the turf on the other side of a prehistoric reave. The excavation plan of 1896 shows a fifth buried stone in line with the others. The two largest stones may be the blocking stones at the end of a double stone row.

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

Feature shown on survey.

Historic England, 2023, National Heritage List for England, 1021339 (National Heritage List for England). SDV365228.

The monument, which falls into four separate areas of protection, comprises a group of coaxial fields, an associated prehistoric settlement, two cairns and a stone alignment situated on a west facing slope overlooking the valley of the Stannon Brook. A group of four edge set stones standing up to 1 metres high situated to the south east of the cairn represent the remains of a stone alignment.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8649 - Little Stannon Newtake, Duchy Farms Survey
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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