White Moor Stone Standing Stone
Photo taken on 13-06-2010
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Little Hound Tor Stone Circle
OS Map: SX 63359 89491
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV4391
Megalithic Portal: 10326
PMD: White Moor Stone
Alternate name: White Moor Stone
Short Name: SS White Moor
Butler map: 40.5
Butler Vol 5: p.53
DPD page: 154
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Cairn Class: No
Dimensions (m): 1.7 x 0.8 x 0.45
Lidar: SX 63359 89491
Guide Map: 7
Nearest Bus Stop (Minor): Throwleigh Cross (4.8 km) [Route: 670]
Nearest Bus Stop (Major): Ramsley (4.0 km) [Route: 670,671,6A]
Nearby sites: SX 63359 89491
Notes
The White Moor stone lies 160m to the SE of the Little Hound Tor stone circle and it is thought to be contemporary with the circle but probably out of position having been re-erected at some point. It is now a boundary marker.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.
- 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)
- Hemery, Eric, High Dartmoor: Land and People, (1983)
- Pettit, Paul, Prehistoric Dartmoor, (1974)
- Prowse, Arthur B., Notes on the Neighbourhood of Taw Marsh, North Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.22 pp.185-199 (1890)
- Whale, T. W., Some Remarks on the Bounds of the Forest of Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.25 pp.510-534 (1893)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Dartmoor Menhirs, T.D.A. Vol.72 pp.191-200 (1940)