Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Laughter Tor Stone Row
OS Map: SX 65222 75393
OS Source: SRGB
HER: MDV53417
Megalithic Portal: 2017
The Stone Rows of GB: Laughter Tor 1
PMD: Laugh Tor I Stone Row
Alternate name: Laughter Tor 1
Short Name: SR Laugh Tor E
Butler map: 28.12.1
DPD page: 122
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Cairn Class: No
Dimensions (m): 164
Lidar: SX 65222 75393
Guide Map: 35
Nearest Bus Stop: Postbridge Bellever (2.6 km) [Route: 98]
Nearby sites: SX 65222 75393
Notes
Butler Laughter 1. Double row interrupted by a new-take wall. row is robbed near wall. "Bronze Age standing stone 2.65 metres high, 0.7 metres wide and 0.52 metres thick, set into a small cairn. About 18 metres to the south east is a double stone row orientated north west to south east and consisting of at least 23 upright stones and a further 9 displaced ones averaging about 1.7 metres apart. The standing stone was re-erected in 1893 and again in 1911 and the cairn was excavated in 1903". Lethbridge pp.121-122.
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.
- 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)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 22, T.D.A. Vol.35 pp. (1903)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Dartmoor Menhirs, T.D.A. Vol.72 pp.191-200 (1940)
- 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 2, T.D.A. Vol.25 pp.541-546 (1893)