Langstone Moor Stone Row Reported Cairn
Database entries
OS Map: SX 5504 7885
OS Source: Butler
Butler OS: SX55047885
Alternate name: Langstone Moor Stone Row
Short Name: CNxLangstoneSR
Butler map: 30.12
Grinsell: PETER TAVY 41
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Hut Class: No
Lidar: SX 5504 7885
Guide Map: 24
Nearest Bus Stop: Merrivale Dartmoor Inn (4.8 km) [Route: 98,171(20/07/26 to 19/09/26)]
Nearby sites: SX 5504 7885
Notes
Butler, referring to the claims of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee of a second Langstone Moor stone row and associated cairn says "A line of slabs is indeed visible along one side of it [a bank of stones] but the cairn appears to be merely a pile of stones from the bank to allow the passage of the Peter Tavy branch of the Lich Way".The HER has no entry for this claimed cairn but the entry for the pool MDV127215 implies it could be the same as the Butler reported cairn at the end of the stone row. On this website the pool is currently listed as a separate entry Langstone Moor Ancient Pool.
The Butler (1991) diagram p.77 (fig 30.8) shows both a mound and a pit. Could these represent these as two distinct features?
Breton (p.17): The Langstone was formerly the end of a stone row, composed of quite small stones, running in a direction N. and S. from a pool that occupies the site of a destroyed cairn.
R. N. Worth (1893): The row runs 20 degrees east of south and west of north, and began at the northern end with a cairn or barrow, of which there is now only left a kind of saucer-shaped rim, about eight yards across. Round this there seems to have been the customary circle of stones.
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.
- Breton, Henry Hugh, The Heart of Dartmoor, (1926)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.2: The North, (1991)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Newman, Phil, Archaeological Sites within Merrivale Training Area (2022), Southwest Landscape Investigations (2022)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Worth's Dartmoor, (1971)