Laughtor Man Standing Stone
Photo taken on 15-05-2010
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Laughter Tor Stone Row
OS Map: SX 65223 75389
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV6001
Megalithic Portal: 2017
PMD: Laugh Tor Man
Alternate name: Laughtor Man
Short Name: SS Laughtor
Butler map: 28.12
Butler Vol 5: p.215 & Fig.149
DPD page: 122
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Hut Class: No
Dimensions (m): 2.4
Lidar: SX 65223 75389
Guide Map: 35
Nearest Bus Stop: Postbridge Bellever (2.6 km) [Route: 98]
Nearby sites: SX 65223 75389
Notes
The longstone is 2.4 m high and was found prostrate on a cairn which was excavated by Burnard. The cairn contained "a great quantity of charcoal and peat ashes". The longstone was restored in 1903. A double stone row heads to the longstone. Breton p.41 a huge menhir I found in June 1913, lying on the ground. It was then 16 ft long, but 4 ft. had been broken off. It was re-erected by the late Rev S. Baring Gould, with the Duchy appliances, and he told me that they could not join the two pieces, so he erected it as it now stands; it is 8.5 ft high, 2ft 6in wide and 1.5 ft thick. The stone row runs E. 720 ft.. See also, Legendary Dartmoor: The Prehistoric Complex of Laughter TorReferences
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)
- 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)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.5: The Second Millennium B.C., (1997)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 22, T.D.A. Vol.35 pp. (1903)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 23, T.D.A. Vol.36 pp. (1904)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Dartmoor Menhirs, T.D.A. Vol.72 pp.191-200 (1940)