Sharpitor N.W. 1 Stone Row
Photo taken on 17-05-2019
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Walk: Sharpitor area Stone Rows and Cists
OS Map: SX 55665 70617
OS Source: SRGB
HER: MDV3762
Megalithic Portal: 2118
The Stone Rows of GB: Sharpitor North West 1
PMD: Sharpitor Summit N Stone Row
Alternate name: Sharpitor NW 1
Short Name: SR Sharp NW1
Butler map: 45.12.1
DPD page: 21
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Hut Class: No
Barrow Report: 66
Dimensions (m): 113
Lidar: SX 55665 70617
Guide Map: 38
Nearest Bus Stop: Walkhampton Memorial (3.2 km) [Route: 55,56]
Nearby sites: SX 55665 70617
Notes
"The double stone row is in poor shape. Both terminals have survived fixing its length at 113m from the blocking stone to the centre of the cairn. The cairn (4.5 x 0.3) has lost its retaining circle and has been dug into in the centre. The other end of the row is well defined by a pair of larger slabs in the line of the rows followed by a central cross-set blocking stone 1.2m long that has been tipped backwards and is partly overgrown. The stones seemed to have increased in size nearer the cairn. Unusually the highest point on the ground is not at the cairn end but near the centre of the rows as they cross the summit of the ridge". Lethbridge pp.20-22. See also: Sea Views at Sharpitor NW 1. Breton p.27 The stone row, which starts from a cairn, passes through the south end of the pond, and terminates some distance below in a small circle of seven stones. About 320 yds due east of the circle, and only 40 yds. from the road, is another stone row which has been mutilated. It is only about 30 yds long and starts from a ruined circle.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.
- Breton, Henry Hugh, The Heart of Dartmoor, (1926)
- Breton, Henry Hugh, Beautiful Dartmoor And Its Interesting Antiquities, (1990)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.3: The South-West, (1994)
- Emmett, D.D., Stone rows: the traditional view reconsidered, D.A.S.P. No.37 pp.94-114 (1979)
- Newman, Phil, An Archaeological Survey of an area of Walkhampton Common, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, Southwest Landscape Investigations (2019)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Stone Rows of Dartmoor Part 1, T.D.A. Vol.78 pp.285-316 (1946)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 66, T.D.A. Vol.79 pp.31-34 (1947)
- Worth, R.N., The Stone Rows of Dartmoor - Part 3, T.D.A. Vol.26 pp.296-307 (1894)