Sherberton Common Reported Stone Row
Database entries
OS Map: SX 69148 73346
OS Source: SRGB
HER: MDV6426
The Stone Rows of GB: Sherberton Common
PMD: Sherberton Common
Alternate name: Sherberton Common
Short Name: SR:SherberCom
Butler map: 11.6
Butler Vol 5: p.214
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Cairn Class: No
Dimensions (m): 68.6
Lidar: SX 69148 73346
Guide Map: 41
Nearest Bus Stop: Poundsgate Tavistock Inn (2.3 km) [Route: 172]
Nearby sites: SX 69148 73346
Notes
Sandy Gerrard (see link to SRGB): According R.N. Worth this is a double stone row that measured 68.6m long situated on a gently sloping south facing slope. According to him the row was destroyed in 1897 shortly after its discovery. The rows were described as being between 8 and 9 feet apart and included some contiguous stones. Jeremy Butler suggested that it was a passage similar to one surviving at Fernworthy Reservoir but he was unable to identify the site of the feature described by Worth (Butler, J., 1997, 214). Fresh fieldwork has identified the structure, which survives comparatively well and is clearly a passageway leading to a robbed roundhouse from a length of prehistoric rubble walling. The structure has only been partly robbed and several stones remain together with the original 1897 stone robbing pits.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.
- Baring-Gould, Sabine, Fourth Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, T.D.A. Vol.29 pp.145-65 (1897)
- Burnard, Robert, The Disappearing Stone Monuments of Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.34 pp.166-167 (1902)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.1: The East, (1991)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.5: The Second Millennium B.C., (1997)
- 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 4, T.D.A. Vol.27 pp.437-442 (1895)