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Summary

This stone bears the letters TS on its northern face. The stone measures 0.84m high, 0.67m wide tapering to 0.49m wide at the top. The stone is up to 0.53m thick and the lettering is 0.08m high. There is severe animal poaching around this stone which forms part of an earlier Prehistoric boundary wall.

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: SX 67 NE 143
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NE/325
• Old SAM Ref: 28773
• Pastscape: 913274

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Hemery, E., 1983, High Dartmoor, 522 (Monograph). SDV249702.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 152120, 17/03/1999 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

SX 6646 7636 A boundary stone on Riddon Ridge standing 1160m south-south-east of Bellever Bridge.
This stone bears the letters TS on its northern face. The stone measures 0.84m high, 0.67m wide tapering to 0.49m wide at the top. The stone is up to 0.53m thick and the lettering is 0.08m high. There is severe animal poaching around this stone which forms part of an earlier Prehistoric boundary wall.

English Heritage, 2005, Survey Information (miscellaneous date) (Report - Survey). SDV345855.

National Monuments Record, 2020, Pastscape (Website). SDV363416.

(07/09/1992, Probert, S. A. J., Royal Commission on the Historic Monuments of England Field Investigation) SX 6648 7639. An inscribed stone located in a reave on the crest of the western flank of Riddon Ridge 400m east-north-east of Whiteslades House. The flat-topped moorland block measures 0.8m high and 0.45m thick. It bears the inscription 'TS' in letters 0.09m high in its north face. An erosion hollow 0.2m deep has formed on the northern side of the stone. A similarly inscribed stone (SX 67 NE 142) lies 180m to the north-east and three other stones (SX 67 NE 22, 140 and 141) with different inscriptions lie in the area of Riddon Ridge. Hemery (1983) suggests that they are tinners' bound stones.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8296 - Dartmeet Premier Archaeological Landscape (PAL) Field Investigation Project

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