Laughter Tor stone rows and standing stone

Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1021047) describes two double stone alignments, a cairn and a standing stone on a south-facing slope of Laughter Tor, above the valley of the East Dart River. It lies in the parish of Dartmoor Forest, about 1.4 km south-east of Bellever Tor and 2.1 km south of Bellever.

The eastern alignment runs north-west to south-east, a double row 164 metres long of at least 23 upright stones averaging 0.23 metres high, irregularly spaced, with the rows 1.7 metres apart. At its north-west end is a small cairn, 5.5 metres across and 0.2 metres high, with a tall standing stone built into its middle. The stone is 2.65 metres high, 0.7 metres wide and 0.52 metres thick, and it was re-erected in 1893 and again in 1911. Robert Burnard excavated the cairn in 1903 and found a lot of charcoal. The second alignment lies south of the standing stone, also roughly north-west to south-east, a double row 10 metres long of at least ten upright stones averaging 0.05 metres high, irregularly spaced, with the rows 1 metre apart.

Sources: Historic England list entry 1021047, which cites Butler, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities (1991), page 58, and the Duchy Farms Survey of Brimpts Farm at 1:10,000 (1988). Sandy Gerrard has posted pointers to his entries for both rows in the stone rows gazetteer (stonerows.wordpress.com, Laughter Tor), and a plan of the second row from his 2020 survey, in comments on the Historic England page; I have not linked or used them.

• Period: Bronze Age
• Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1021047)
• Grid reference: SX 6528 7535 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)