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Higher White Tor stone row
Grid ref: SX 6190 7831
On walking routes: The Lichway
Main image: Photo: Sandy Gerrard, Wikimedia Commons
Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1020239) describes a stone alignment on the upper south slope of Higher White Tor, above the valley of the Cherry Brook. It is two parallel rows running about north to south, 95.4 metres long. Twelve stones stand and a further 24 lie fallen. Four of the upright stones are in the west row and the rest in the east row. The tallest stone is 0.75 metres high and the average 0.3 metres. It lies in the parish of Dartmoor Forest, about 0.5 km north-east of Longaford Tor and 3.2 km west of Postbridge.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1020239, which cites Butler, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities (1991), page 65. Sandy Gerrard has posted a pointer to his Higher White Tor page in the stone rows gazetteer (stonerows.wordpress.com), and photographs from 26 May 2017, on the Historic England page; I have not linked or used them.
- Period: Bronze Age
- Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1020239)
- Grid reference: SX 6190 7831 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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