Sharpitor W. (Peek Hill) Stone Row

Photo taken on 25-05-2015

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Walk: Sharpitor area Stone Rows and Cists
OS Map: SX 55058 70748
OS Source: SRGB
HER record: 12831
Megalithic Portal: 2120
The Stone Rows of GB: Sharpitor West
PMD: Sharpitor W Stone Row
Alternate name: Sharpitor W
Short Name: SR Sharpitor W
Butler map: 45.11
DPD page: 20
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Cairn Class: No
Dimensions (m): 132
Lidar: SX55067075
Notes: Butler: Sharpitor W, Worth: Peek Hill. Near Horseyeat Farm. "BA stone row and cairn. The 132m long row has 47 upright stones and the low cairn is 8.4m in diameter. Both monuments lie under dense bracken cover; gorse vegetation has obscured part of the row". Lethbridge pp.19-20, diagram p.19, photo p.20 Horseyeat Farm stone row. See also: Sea Views at Sharpitor West
Nearby sites: SX55067075

References

These are selected references with an emphasis on out of copyright sources linked as PDFs. For more detailed references try any linked HER record. For some records there are very good resources on the Prehistoric Monuments of Dartmoor (PMD) website by Bill Radcliffe. Barrow reports are linked above as are references to Butler, Grinsell and Turner.

• Fox, Aileen, 27th Report on Archaeology and Early History, T.D.A. Vol.95 pp.74-86 (1963)
• Newman, Phil, An Archaeological Survey of an area of Walkhampton Common, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, Southwest Landscape Investigations (2019)