Hurston Ridge Standing Stone
Photo taken on 26-08-2012
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Hurston Ridge Double Stone Row
OS Map: SX 67268 82444
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV6541
Megalithic Portal: 8345
PMD: Hurston Ridge Standing Stone
Alternate name: Hurston Ridge
Short Name: SS Hurston
Butler map: 25.9
DPD page: 136
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Cairn Class: No
Dimensions (m): 1.8
Lidar: SX 67268 82444
Guide Map: 21
Nearest Bus Stop: Warren House Inn (2.0 km) [Route: 171]
Nearby sites: SX 67268 82444
Notes
Hurston Ridge is one of the best examples of a double stone now on Dartmoor. At the south end is a cairn 22feet in diameter. The space between the rows widens intentionally as it approaches the cairn. The first stone from the south in the eastern row is the largest stone and stands 5 feet 10 inches high. Crossing suggests this may have been the original Heath Stone. A cinerary urn, in fragments except for the rim, was discovered in the cairn in 1900. Restored, the urn, 18 3/4 inches high, 16 inches in diameter at the rim and 8 inches in diameter at the base was revealed as an unusually large and handsome bipartite Overhanging rim or crowned urn of Middle Bronze Age type.References
These are selected references with an emphasis on out of copyright sources linked as PDFs. For more detailed references try any linked HER or PMD record above.
- Brailsford, J. W, Bronze Age Stone Monuments of Dartmoor, Antiquity Volume 12, Number 48 pp.444-63 (1938)
- Burnard, Robert, Scientific Memoranda Report 27: Restoration of Hurston Ridge Stone row and Laughter Tor Menhir, T.D.A. Vol.46 p.70-72 (1914)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.2: The North, (1991)
- Emmett, D.D., Stone rows: the traditional view reconsidered, D.A.S.P. No.37 pp.94-114 (1979)
- Fleming, Andrew, The Prehistoric Landscape of Dartmoor Part 2: North and East Dartmoor , Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , pp. 195 - 241 (1983)
- Newman, Phil, Headland Warren and the Birchtor and Vitifer Mines: An Archaeological Survey, English Heritage (2002)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Stone Rows of Dartmoor Part 1, T.D.A. Vol.78 pp.285-316 (1946)
- Worth, R.N., The Stone Rows of Dartmoor - Part 3, T.D.A. Vol.26 pp.296-307 (1894)