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Main image: Sittaford Recumbent Stone Circle - 25 metres from location - image by Guy Wareham (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Sittaford Tor stone circle is about 300 metres south-west of Sittaford Tor (SX 6301 8281). Alan Endacott spotted its fallen stones lying in the peat in 2007. It was not reported until the Devon Archaeological Society newsletter of January 2014.
A Dartmoor Preservation Association volunteer excavation followed in April 2015, along with a geophysical survey. Radiocarbon dates from the site fall at the end of the third millennium BC.
Endacott includes it in his proposed "sacred arc" of circles round the north-east of the moor, along with the Metheral Stone Circle and the Irishman's Wall Circle.
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