Hart Tor

Site includes two stone rows with terminal cairns

Nearest town:
Tavistock (10km W)
OS reference:
SX577717
OS sheet:
202
Latitude:
50° 31' 37.66 N
Longitude:
4° 0' 28.36 W
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Images

Image of Hart Tor (Stone Row / Alignment) by postman

This one wasn’t on the list, I only stopped to look for Black Tor’s basin and Logan stone and seeing as it wasn’t far, I couldn’t resist, good choice.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Jun 24, 2018
Image of Hart Tor (Stone Row / Alignment) by postman

Looking over the cairn without circle stones to the one with ‘em.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Jun 24, 2018
Image of Hart Tor (Stone Row / Alignment) by postman

looking over the cairn with no circle stones

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Jun 24, 2018
Image of Hart Tor (Stone Row / Alignment) by postman

Single stone row leading to/from the cairn with no circle stones.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Jun 24, 2018
Image of Hart Tor (Stone Row / Alignment) by postman

Single stone row leading to/from the cairn with no circle stones, it’s longer than it looks, there’s another stone on the other side of the ditch, and I guess some have gone.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Jun 24, 2018
Image of Hart Tor (Stone Row / Alignment) by postman

Looking over the stone row as it reaches the cairn circle, with another cairn right next to it.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Jun 24, 2018
Image of Hart Tor (Stone Row / Alignment) by postman

The long stone rows going up hill from the river.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Jun 24, 2018
Image of Hart Tor (Stone Row / Alignment) by postman

A lone cairn hangs out at the side, no stone row or cist that I could see.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Jun 24, 2018
Image of Hart Tor (Stone Row / Alignment) by GLADMAN

Aerial view perched upon Black Tor... the intriguing manner in which the two stone rows (northern double) descend to the River Meavy is hopefully clear enough.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Feb 2, 2016
Image of Hart Tor (Stone Row / Alignment) by GLADMAN

The southern cairn-circle and stone row ........

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Feb 2, 2016
Image of Hart Tor (Stone Row / Alignment) by GLADMAN

Northern cairn-circle orthostats.. toward Hart Tor itself.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Feb 2, 2016
Image of Hart Tor (Stone Row / Alignment) by GLADMAN

Looking down the northern (double) stone row...

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Feb 2, 2016
Image of Hart Tor (Stone Row / Alignment) by GLADMAN

Northern cairn-circle toward the River Meavy and Black Tor (top right) with its own stone row.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Feb 2, 2016
Image of Hart Tor (Stone Row / Alignment) by doug

the scrub at the forefront of the picture is actually a  tinners ditch going through the double stone row, i believe that 4 to 6 uprights have disappeared as a result

Image credit: Doug
doug
doug Feb 27, 2005
Image of Hart Tor (Stone Row / Alignment) by doug

there is another cairn and cist on the other side of this one, a bit hard to see from this view

Image credit: Doug
doug
doug Feb 27, 2005
Image of Hart Tor (Stone Row / Alignment) by doug

As you can the Tinner’s ditch runs right through the row causing some small damage and from cairn 2 there is a single stone row (which you can’t see)

Image credit: Doug
doug
doug Jan 3, 2005

Articles

Hart Tor

postman
postman Jun 24, 2018

Greywether says there are two stone rows here, a double and a single row of stones, but the single stone row is called, at least on the TMA, Black Tor. Which is it?
This unexpected delight was my final site of the day, it wasn’t on my list of sites that I wanted to get to, but I’d decided to put Trowelsworthy warren stone circle back for another day, so I had a bit of time left over. What I want now is a place that’s not far from the road, the very road I’m travelling along homewards. Black Tor fits the bill, it’s got a Logan stone (Zip it Stan Lee) and a rock basin. I like both of them things so I leave Eric dozing in the car and, stagger? across the moor. I couldn’t find the rock basin and couldn’t decide which if any of the balanced rocks would move under my weight. Disappointed, I look down to the river valley, look again at the map and decide that I can see the stone row, So, just one more then.

The river is crossed via a metal plank, as I did so a pony was drinking from the small pool, stood on the plank watching the scene, I decided this was as good a Dartmoor scene with no stones in it as Iv’e seen, the water was so clear and clean looking, even the pony looked in very good health. Sharpitor and Leather tor provide the best of backdrops.
Fresh over the river a cairn hangs out, no stone row or cist that I could see. So straight over to where the double stone row bangs against the river then follow them up the hill. The now, almost compulsory drainage ditch cuts through it, keep going up, to where the stone rows joins forces with a particularly good cairn circle. Adjacent, almost conjoined, is another cairn, no circle stones, but it does have a single row of stones that reaches beyond the ditch.
Even if there were no megalithic site here it would still be a good place, rocky tors, ponies, clean and clear river, a gorgeous day, but there is a megalithic site here too, and my mind is blown, damn it I’ve got to go home.

Hart Tor

R
rdavymed Jun 5, 2006

From Black Tor, walk down into the stream valley (keeping the aqueduct about 400 yards to your right). On the opposite hillside, you should be able to make out the avenue/row ahead of you. Cross the stream using one of the metal bridges.

Hart Tor

greywether
greywether Dec 14, 2003

To avoid crossing the River Meavy, park at Devil’s Bridge on the B3212 and walk south along the east bank.

Two stone rows, one double (N) and one single (S). Both run roughly E/W from cairns at their E ends.

The N row runs for some 125m but is damaged in places by a ditch and a leat. An 1859 account says that it ended in a pillar 7.7m high which had fallen at that time. It is no longer there but would have been the largest on the moor. A low circle of stones surrounds the cairn.

The S row runs for 60m and is also damaged by a ditch. Its cairn is also surrounded by a circle of stones.

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