Stone alignment, Langstone Moor

Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1007897) describes a stone alignment, a cairn and part of a hollow way called the Lichway on a broad ridge between Cocks Hill and White Tor. The alignment is a single row 128 metres long of twenty-seven stones, of which only thirteen remain in place, averaging 0.19 metres high. The gaps between the stones vary, either because of robbing or because smaller stones are buried under peat. The downslope terminal stone, at the south end, is 2.95 metres high, 0.75 metres wide and 0.4 metres thick, and was re-erected by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee in 1893. It lies in the parish of Peter Tavy, about 1.2 km east of Little White Tor.

At the north end of the row is a round cairn 5 metres across and up to 0.4 metres high, with a hollow in its middle that suggests earlier robbing or partial excavation. The Lichway, a hollow way 4 metres wide and 0.4 metres deep, passes between the terminal stone and the rest of the row. It leads across Dartmoor towards Lydford and is known as the route used to carry the dead to the parish church in the early medieval period.

Sources: Historic England list entry 1007897, which cites Butler, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities (1991), Worth's Dartmoor (1981), Darvill, MPP Single Monument Class Description: Stone Alignments (1988), and the National Archaeological Record (SX57NE18).

• Period: Bronze Age
• Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1007897)
• Grid reference: SX 5501 7878 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)