Sharp Tor

Nearest town:
Rattery (8km E)
OS reference:
SX650618
OS sheet:
202
Latitude:
50° 26' 23.52 N
Longitude:
3° 54' 4.9 W
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Images

Image of Sharp Tor (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Dartmoor landscape context from Sharp Tor with Stalldown Barrow (top left) and the Erme Plains, centre background.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Jul 15, 2010
Image of Sharp Tor (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

The Sharp Tor cairn on the skyline. Unfortunately the restoration shown in Lubin’s photos has been somewhat undone by a horrible walker’s cairn built from the mound – what possesses people to do this?

Image credit: A. Brookes (10.6.2010)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 7, 2010
Image of Sharp Tor (Cairn(s)) by Lubin

The cairn to the north east of the tor during survey, before repair.

Image credit: Peter Castle ©
Lubin
Lubin Jun 18, 2006
Image of Sharp Tor (Cairn(s)) by Lubin

The cairn to the north east of the Tor at SX650618 after repair.

Image credit: Peter Castle ©
Lubin
Lubin Jun 18, 2006

Articles

Sharp Tor

GLADMAN
GLADMAN Jun 14, 2009

A large summit cairn just west of the Two Moors Way – although I approached via Shipley Bridge/Glasscombe Corner/Plies Hill to take in Corringdon Ball Long Barrow [the only known example upon Dartmoor] and several stone rows en-route. Quite a trek.

Sit here for a while and time seems to stand still. Just you, the sky and the murmurs of the past. Or is that the wind? Perhaps it’s all that fresh air...

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