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Difficult site to describe without a plan so I have posted a sketch plan.
All rows run NE/SW and have cairns at their NE ends (uphill) and longstones at their SW ends.
Row 1 is 150m long and ends in a 3.0m high longstone - its broad face in line with the row. The SW half of the row is a single row which then becomes double for 47m then single again.
The Row 2 longstone is 4.2m high (the tallest standing stone on Dartmoor). Its broad face cuts across the line of the row. The row is 83m long - single with several large gaps.
Row 3 (like Row 1) is 150m long but is single throughout. Its longstone is 2.3m high.
The Giant's Basin cairn (22m diameter by 4m high) sits to the SE of the Row 1 cairn.
There are several other cairns at the site not marked on the plan.
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Butler reports a cup-marked boulder set into the wall to the SW near the entrance to Brisworthy. 15 to 18 shallow cups.
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25m diameter stone circle restored in 1909 at which time only four stones in the SW quadrant were standing.
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Burl certainly does call this a 530m row but Jeremy Butler in his epic Dartmoor - Atlas of Antiquities claims it is only 369m long.
The difference, he claims, is due to the the restorer who "mistakenly added 180 yds to its length". He puts the original ending at the 1.2m high stone in the row of stones N of the low bank some 300m from the cairn circle.
He also claims it was probably a single row originally as in the areas where there is a double alignment some of the stones are set across the row suggesting they were re-erected incorrectly.
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This is a wonderful site. Far enough away from the car parks at the E end of Burrator Reservoir to deter casual visitors but a pleasant enough walk in for the rest.
Its open location, the grading of the stones and the way they run downhill and then up make it look like a Richard Long landscape sculpture.
See the links below for directions, descriptions and plans.
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Park at SX654923 and walk up footpath.
One of four triple rows on Dartmoor. Runs for 146m E (downhill) from a cairn. W half better preserved.
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