Collard Tor

Stone Row / Alignment
SX55846203

Nearest town:

Plympton (5km SSW)

OS reference:

SX55846203

OS sheet:

202

Latitude:

50° 26' 23.12 N

Longitude:

4° 1' 49.35 W

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Images (11)
Miscellaneous (1)

Images

Image of Collard Tor (Stone Row / Alignment) by thesweetcheat

The largest stone in the possible east-west “alignment” to the east of the rows, complete with sheep denture offering.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.2.2013)

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Image of Collard Tor (Stone Row / Alignment) by thesweetcheat

Stones in the possible east-west “alignment” to the east of the two rows.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.2.2013)

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Image of Collard Tor (Stone Row / Alignment) by thesweetcheat

Slab set across the southern terminus of the western row.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.2.2013)

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Image of Collard Tor (Stone Row / Alignment) by thesweetcheat

Large L-shaped slab in the western row.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.2.2013)

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Image of Collard Tor (Stone Row / Alignment) by thesweetcheat

The badly damaged cairn at the northern terminus of the west row.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.2.2013)

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Image of Collard Tor (Stone Row / Alignment) by thesweetcheat

The large blocking slab at the southern terminus of the eastern row.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.2.2013)

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Image of Collard Tor (Stone Row / Alignment) by thesweetcheat

Looking north along the eastern row.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.2.2013)

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Image of Collard Tor (Stone Row / Alignment) by thesweetcheat

Two of the larger stones of the eastern row.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.2.2013)

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Image of Collard Tor (Stone Row / Alignment) by thesweetcheat

Displaced capstone of the eastern terminal cairn.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.2.2013)

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Image of Collard Tor (Stone Row / Alignment) by thesweetcheat

Cairn at the northern terminus of the east row.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.2.2013)

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Image of Collard Tor (Stone Row / Alignment) by thesweetcheat

The cairn at the northern terminus of the east row.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.2.2013)

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Articles

Collard Tor

Stone Row / Alignment

thesweetcheat Feb 9, 2013

Pastscape page contains descriptions of the rows.

Jeremy Butler’s “Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities Volume 3 – the South-West” (1994 Devon books) contains detailed plans of the rows and of the terminal cairns.

Sites within 20km of Collard Tor

Saddlesborough

1.17km NNW
Saddlesborough summit cairns

Cairn(s) • 1.22km N

3

1
Saddlesborough settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 1.28km NNW

9

1
West Saddlesborough Hut Circles

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 1.44km NW

8

2
West Saddlesborough Stone Row & Cairn Circle

Stone Row / Alignment • 1.44km NW

19

3
West Saddlesborough Cairn

Cairn(s) • 1.47km NW

5

2
Emmets Post

Cairn(s) • 1.51km NE

1

1
Shell Top South West

Enclosure • 2.37km WNW

9
Trowlesworthy Stone Row East

Stone Row / Alignment • 2.56km NE

17

3

1
Trowlesworthy Stone Row West

Stone Row / Alignment • 2.57km NE

20

3

1
Cholwich Town (destroyed)

Stone Row / Alignment • 2.66km ENE

1

2
Trowlesworthy Warren

Stone Circle • 2.7km NE

24

2

2
Boringdon Camp

Hillfort • 2.82km SSW

13

1
Dewerstone Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 2.83km WNW

4

4
Tory Brookhead

Enclosure • 2.94km ENE

7
Trowlesworthy Warren

Cist • 2.95km NNE

1

1
Trowlesworthy

3.09km NE
Little Trowlesworthy Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 3.09km NE

2
Tory Brookhead

Cairn(s) • 3.12km ENE
Wigford Down

Cairn(s) • 3.21km NW

11

1
Willings Walls Reave

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 3.41km NE

1

1
Ringmoor Down Reave

3.48km NNW

1
Brisworthy Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 3.53km N

57

1

8

1
Spanish Lake

Cist • 3.55km NE

1
Wigford Down

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 3.56km NW

2
Ringmoor Down Cist

Cist • 3.73km N

3

1
Legis Tor Cist

Cist • 3.8km NNE

5

1
Ringmoor Cairn Circle and Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 3.89km N

52

7

3
Willings Walls Warren cist

Cist • 3.95km NE

2
Ringmoor Kerbed Cairn

Kerbed Cairn • 3.98km N

6
Penn Beacon South

4.07km ENE

3
Penn Beacon

Cairn(s) • 4.14km ENE

2
Shell Top

Cairn(s) • 4.23km ENE

3
Willings Wall Warren

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 4.29km NNE

3
Ringmoor Down cairns

Cairn(s) • 4.33km N

3
Ditsworthy Cairn Circle

Cairn circle • 4.41km NNE

1

1
Hen Tor North / Shavercombe Brook

Cairn(s) • 4.97km NE

7

1
Gutter Tor settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 5.02km NNE

3
Gutter Tor Cist

Cist • 5.08km NNE

12

1
Gutter Tor

Natural Rock Feature • 5.24km NNE

2
Gutter Tor cairns

Cairn(s) • 5.27km N

6
St Leonard’s Well

Sacred Well • 5.57km N

2

2
Roborough Beacon

Enclosure • 5.67km W

8

2
Dendles Waste

Cist • 5.68km ENE

1

1
Whittenknowles Rocks Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 5.72km NNE

8

1
Yellowmead Multiple Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 6km N

52

3

11

3
Yellowmead SE cairn

Cairn(s) • 6.03km NNE

3

2
Drizzlecombe Megalithic Complex

Complex • 6.07km NNE

116

8

1
Ranny Brook

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 6.34km ENE

3

1
Eylesbarrow South West

Cist • 6.39km NNE

9

2
Ditsworthy Warren

Cist • 6.39km NNE

7

1
Outcombe

Cist • 6.5km NNE

1

1
Higher Hartor Tor

Round Cairn • 6.52km NE

3

1
Harrowthorn Plantation North

Cairn(s) • 6.54km ENE

1

1
Coombebrook North East

Cairn(s) • 6.56km ENE

1

1
Maristow Camp

Enclosure • 6.7km W
Langcombe Brook / Deadman’s Bottom

Cairn(s) • 6.8km NE

35

1
Plym Steps Round Cairn

Round Cairn • 6.81km NE

5
Plym Steps

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 6.87km NE

10
Grim’s Grave

Ring Cairn • 6.9km NE

14

1
Stalldown Cairns

Cairn(s) • 6.94km ENE

6

1
Cuckoo Rock

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 7.17km NNE

2

1
Stalldown Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 7.34km ENE

40

1

6

2
Stalldown cairn circle

Cairn circle • 7.34km ENE

5
Stalldown Stone Row Cairn S

Cairn(s) • 7.35km ENE

3

2

1
Stalldown Stone Row cairns

Cairn(s) • 7.35km ENE

4

2

1
Calveslake Tor

Cairn(s) • 7.37km NE

2

1
Stalldown Stone Row Cairn NE

Cairn(s) • 7.42km ENE

4

2
Leather Tor South

Cist • 7.48km N

2
Down Tor South

Cist • 7.48km NNE

2

1
Eylesbarrow

Cairn(s) • 7.71km NNE

15

3
Down Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 7.78km NNE

69

1

7

1
Down Tor NW

Round Cairn • 7.8km NNE

1
Hingston Hill North

Cist • 7.86km NNE

3
Peek Hill

Ring Cairn • 7.87km NNW

1

1
Stalldown South-East

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 7.88km E

8

2
Hillson’s House

Cairn(s) • 7.94km ENE

5

2

1
Stall Moor Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 7.99km ENE

15

6

1
Burford Down

Stone Row / Alignment • 8.07km E

18

5
Blatchford Bottom settlements

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 8.08km ENE

3
Narrator Brook Head enclosure

Enclosure • 8.11km NNE

9

2
Burford Down cairn and cist

Cairn(s) • 8.12km E

8

1
Narrator Brook Head cairn

Cairn(s) • 8.12km NNE

10

1
Stall Moor Cairn

Cairn(s) • 8.15km ENE

5

2
Great Gnat’s Head

Cairn(s) • 8.21km NE

2

1

1
Erme Plains

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 8.25km ENE

1
Sharpitor

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 8.56km NNW

10

5
Erme Pound

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 8.65km ENE

4

1
Sharpitor cairns

Cairn(s) • 8.66km NNW

16

2
Sharpitor Cist

Cist • 8.67km NNW

3

2
Hook Lake

Stone Row / Alignment • 8.69km ENE

3

1
Horseyeatt

Stone Row / Alignment • 8.7km NNW

4

1
Hook Lake

Enclosure • 8.76km ENE

4

1
Leeden Tor South

Cist • 8.78km N

1

1
Harford Moor

Cist • 8.82km E

15

2
Butter Brook Ford

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 9.02km E

5

1
Raddick Hill

Cairn(s) • 9.08km N

17
Sharp Tor

Cairn(s) • 9.13km ENE

5

1
Piles Hill stone row

Stone Row / Alignment • 9.17km E

3

1
Black Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 9.4km N

17
Three Barrows

Cairn(s) • 9.44km ENE

10
Piles Hill cairns

Cairn(s) • 9.49km E

8

2
Piles Hill longstone

Standing Stone / Menhir • 9.62km E

12

2
Stall Moor Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 9.65km NE

12

2
Fox Tor Mire

Cist • 9.66km NNE

1

1
Weatherdon Hill

Cairn(s) • 9.71km E

2

1
Addicombe

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 9.77km E
Butterdon stone row

Stone Row / Alignment • 9.84km E

16

1

3
Hart Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 9.84km N

45

1

3
Black Tor

Rocking Stone • 9.88km N

8

1
Glasscombe Ball

Cairn(s) • 9.96km E

3

2
Ingra Tor

Cist • 9.96km NNW

1

1
Western White Barrow

Cairn(s) • 10.01km ENE

9

3
Glasscombe Ball North

Stone Row / Alignment • 10.02km E

1
Goldsmith’s Cross/Fox Tor Mire

Cist • 10.04km NE

4

1
Butterdon Hill (north) cairn

Round Cairn • 10.13km E

3

1
Spurrell’s Cross Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 10.17km E

6

2
Butterdon Hill cairns

Cairn(s) • 10.18km E

21

2
Butterdon Hill cairn circle

Cairn circle • 10.27km E

4

2
Glasscombe Corner

Stone Row / Alignment • 10.3km E

11

2
Childe’s Tomb

Cist • 10.54km NE

5

2
Western Beacon

Cairn(s) • 10.59km E

19

5
Glaze Meet

Cairn(s) • 10.63km E

3

1
Corringdon Ball Stone Row

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 10.65km E

15

1
Buckland Ford Cairn Circle

Cairn circle • 10.65km ENE

10
Butterdon Hill Chambered Tomb

Chambered Tomb • 10.72km E

8

2
Devil’s Gully Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 10.75km N

8
Cuckoo Ball

Chambered Tomb • 10.77km E

13

2
Yes Tor Bottom

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 10.79km N

1

1
Cantrell Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 10.99km E

3

2
Corringdon Ball Long Barrow

Long Barrow • 11.04km E

14

1
Eastern White Barrow

Cairn(s) • 11.06km ENE

9

1

1
Huntingdon Warren Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 11.26km ENE

1

1
Ter Hill

Cist • 11.41km NE

2

1
Heap of Sinners

Cairn(s) • 11.41km ENE

11

1

2
Biller’s Pound

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 11.47km ENE

2

1
Broken Barrow

Round Cairn • 11.55km NNE

10

1
Snowdon

Cairn(s) • 11.73km ENE

6

1
Royal Hill Cist

Cist • 11.79km NNE

24
Hucken Tor

Natural Rock Feature • 11.83km NNW

1

1
Royal Hill

11.93km NNE
Rider’s Rings

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 12.13km ENE
The Crock of Gold Cist

Cairn(s) • 12.28km NNE

4

1

3
Brockhill Foot West

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 12.29km ENE

9

1
Vixen Tor

Cist • 12.37km NNW

14

4

1
Yellowmeade

Cist • 12.37km N

2

1
Aish Ridge

Stone Row / Alignment • 12.37km E

2

2
Joan Ford’s Newtake

Cist • 12.39km NE

3

1
Pecked Circle

Stone Circle • 12.42km NE

1
Brockhill Ford West

Cairn(s) • 12.44km ENE

2
Brockhill Enclosed Settlements

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 12.48km ENE

1
Pupers Hill

Cairn(s) • 12.49km ENE

11

1

3
Merrivale Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 12.57km NNW

39

3
Skir Hill

Cairn(s) • 12.66km NE

1
Barn Hill / Whitchurch Down

Cist • 12.71km NNW

1

2
Ryder’s Hill

Cairn(s) • 12.74km NE

2

1
The Plague Market At Merrivale

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 12.76km NNW

105

19

1
Blakey Tor

Cist • 12.92km NNE

5

1
Dean Moor

Cairn(s) • 13.04km ENE

8

1

1
Merrivale Bridge Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 13.07km NNW

8

1

1
Swincombe Ford Newtake

Cairn(s) • 13.16km NE

2
Gripper’s Hill

Cairn(s) • 13.18km ENE

13

1

1
Round Hill

Cairn(s) • 13.43km NNE

8
Mardle Valley

Cairn(s) • 13.66km ENE

1

1
Harbourne Head cairns

Cairn(s) • 13.66km ENE

2

1
Sherberton Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 13.75km NE

26

4

1
Down Ridge

Stone Circle • 13.98km NE

12

2
Harbourne Head

Standing Stone / Menhir • 14.03km ENE

5

1
Holne Moor

Cist • 14.04km NE

1

2
Little Mis Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 14.26km NNW

8
Cox Tor

Cairn(s) • 14.34km NNW

2

1
Mount Edgcumbe Barrow

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery • 14.34km SW

1

1
Brent Hill

Hillfort • 14.51km ENE

1
Great Western Reave

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 14.54km NNW

1

1
Holne Moor Triple Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 14.74km NE

2
Long Plantation

Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art • 14.82km N

1

1

1

1
Aller Brook

Cist • 15.28km NE

1

1
Dunnabridge Pound

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 15.3km NE

4

2
Roos Tor Northeast

Cairn(s) • 15.64km NNW

1
Wistman’s Wood

15.94km NNE

2

2
Langstone Moor

Enclosure • 15.96km NNW

3
Black Newtake

Cairn circle • 15.99km NNE

9

1
Langstone Moor

Cairn(s) • 16.08km NNW

4

1
Langstone Moor Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 16.16km NNW

18

1

4
Yar Tor Hut Circle

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 16.18km NE

6
Coffin Stone

Natural Rock Feature • 16.33km NE

1
Laughter Tor

Standing Stone / Menhir • 16.38km NE

7

4
Littaford Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 16.51km NNE

1
White Tor East

Cist • 16.6km NNW

6

1
Bellever Tor West

Cist • 16.61km NNE

8

1
White Tor Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 16.67km NNW

17
Langstone Moor Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 16.78km NNW

10

1
Bellever

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 16.84km NNE

26

7

1
Yar Tor summit cairn

Cairn(s) • 16.88km NE

9

1
Yar Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 17.03km NE

20

1

1
Stennen Hill

Cist • 17.1km NNE

9

1
Crow Tor

Cist • 17.2km N

2

1
Conies Down

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 17.28km N

1
White Tor Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 17.34km NNE

8

1

1
Arch Tor (South-West)

Round Cairn • 17.4km NNE

3
Corndon Tor

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery • 17.6km NE

33

1
Riddon Ridge Field Systems

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 17.71km NE

3

1
Riddon Ridge

Round Cairn • 17.82km NE

5
Lakehead Hill

Stone Row / Alignment • 17.83km NNE

43

2
Treninnow Stone Monument

Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech • 17.87km SW

1
Hembury Castle

Hillfort • 17.91km ENE

19

5

1
Rowtor Bog Cairns

Cairn(s) • 17.91km NNE

16

1
Corndon Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 17.94km NE

1
Beardown Man

Standing Stone / Menhir • 17.95km N

13

2
Treninnow Gatepost

Standing Stone / Menhir • 18.03km SW

1

1
Kraps Ring

Enclosure • 18.18km NNE

4

1

1
Archerton, Newtake

Ring Cairn • 18.54km NNE

1

1

2
Blackdown Rings

Hillfort • 18.83km E

1

1
Chittaford Down

Cist • 19km NNE

9

2
Hingston Down East

Round Barrow(s) • 19km W

1
Chittaford Cairn and Cist

Cist • 19.1km NNE

8

2
Roundy Park

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 19.4km NNE

3
Roundy Park

Cairn(s) • 19.4km NNE

16

2
Rame Head

Cliff Fort • 19.53km SW

2

1
Hingston Down

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery • 19.59km W

1

1
Dupath Rounds

Enclosure • 19.62km W

1

1
Broad Down Cairn

Cairn(s) • 19.67km NNE

2

1
Cator Common North Cairn

Cairn(s) • 19.69km NE

3

1
Castlewich Henge

Henge • 19.76km W

3

3
Heathfield Beacons

Round Barrow(s) • 19.83km NW

2