More information : (NZ 842089) A line of stones, is said to have run between Swarth Howe (NZ 80 NW 1) and a barrow to the west (NZ 80 NW 5). The two remaining stones of this row are stated to have been carved in a style similar to that of a stone, found within Swarth Howe during excavation, and now lost. Knox describes four stones (see illustration card) 3 ft high forming an oblong.
"One stone, approx 2 ft by 17 ins high, from nearby the howe was by
the house front door of F Wilkinson at River Gardens, Sleights in
1949".
According to Anderson (excavator of both the above barrows), there
had been a line of large stones connecting the 3 howes of the Swarth
Howe group. On the only two noted by him were many markings, not
certainly man made, although some of the marks corresponded to those
on a stone from Swarth Howe itself. 'Near Swarthoue on Dunsley High
Moor, which was, no doubt, a Druid's station, are several ancient
stone pillars, only about three feet high. Two of them stand one
hundred yards west from this houe, and west from one another; a
small houe also stands a few yards west of them. At the distance of
one hundred and ten yards north-by-east from these, two more
similar pillars stand at nearly the same distance from, and also in
the same direction of, each other. These four old erect stones,
forming a long square, may possibly be only parts of other figures,
such as triangles, or circles, or long avenues. In setting these,
reference seems to have been had to the cardinal points, and,
perhaps, also to that conspicuous tumulus, Swarthoue, with which they
form a nearly right-angled triangle...' (1-4)
Dunsley Moor. Classified as Uncertain Site in standard reference (5)
Scheduled monument .(6)
Stanhope White also noted two stones at NZ 842089, but the description does not tally emtirely with that given in other sources, for instead of the date 1891, he recorded the letters HR and the date 1824 on the West side. (7)
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