Two concentric stone circles, Langstone Moor

Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1007550) describes two concentric stone circles on a hill crest above the valley of the River Walkham. The inner circle is 20.4 metres across and has 16 stones, of which only seven still stand. The stones average 1 metre high and 0.5 metres square. A single stone standing 3 metres south-west of the circle is the only survivor of an outer ring. The inside is level. It lies in the parish of Peter Tavy, about 0.5 km north-west of Clay Tor and 3.2 km north of Merrivale.

The circles were partly restored in 1894 by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, who set the fallen stones upright again and found four stones of the outer ring.

Robert Burnard's Dartmoor Pictorial Records, Part IV (1894), the same year as the restoration, opens with a photograph of the Langstone Moor circle and has a chapter on the great stone circles of Stall Moor, Langstone Moor and Down Ridge.

Sources: Historic England list entry 1007550, which cites Baring-Gould in the Devonshire Association Transactions, vol 27 (1895), page 84, Bowman, Single Monument Class Description: Concentric Stone Circles (1990), and the Devon County Sites and Monuments Register (SX57NE20). The Burnard paragraph is from Dartmoor Pictorial Records, Part IV (1894), the title pages and contents of the Library copy.

• Period: Bronze Age
• Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1007550)
• Grid reference: SX 5563 7819 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)