The White Moor Stone is a standing stone 1.7 m high and up to 1 m wide, leaning very slightly to the north. It stands at SX 6335 8947 on the col between Little Hound Tor and Hound Tor, south of Cosdon, where tracks have crossed for hundreds if not thousands of years.
Its four inscriptions record its working life as a boundary: DC for the Duchy of Cornwall (Dartmoor Forest), TP for Throwleigh, and two different Ts for South Tawton, one crude and probably the earliest, one serifed and picked out in black paint. The three parishes meet at this single point.
The stone lies about 160 m south-east of the White Moor stone circle (also called Little Hound Tor circle), which is 20.2 m across and the only Dartmoor circle with an entrance. The stone may once have belonged to the circle, or been a free-standing menhir beside it; it was probably moved and re-erected at some point.
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Kestor. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography
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Kestor. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography