More information : Leskernick Stone Row. Notes on stones.
All measurements are metric. All stones are granite.
Rec = Recumbent
Features no. in brackets
(1). 3 stones; 2 flat and 1 at a slight tilt, in a low depression (0.15 deep). Stones cut? - but no drillmarks.
(2). Stone, rec 0.95 long.
(3). Orthostat 0.5 long, 0.2 thick, 0.6 high. (4). Stone, rec 0.4 long.
(5). Stone, rec 0.8 long.
(6). Lump. Stone on probing.
(7). Lump. Stone on probing.
(8). 2 stones, rec. (split?) 0.55 long.
(9). Stone, rec 0.65 long. (10). Stone, rec 0.97 long.
(11). Stone, rec 0.65 long, probably moved. (12). Stone, rec 0.35 long. (13). Stone, rec 0.5 long. (14). Stone, rec 0.7 long. (15). Stone, tilted 0.5 high, 0.55 long. (16). Stone, rec 0.55 long.
(17). Stone, rec 0.6 long. (18). Lump, stone on probing. (19). Stone, erect, very low, 0.2 high. (20). Lump, stone?.
(21). Lump, stone? (22). Lump, stone? (23). Stone, rec 0.65 long.
(24). Stone, rec 0.5 long.
(25). Stone, rec 0.6 long.
(26). Stone, rec, very small. (27). Stone, tilting, 0.45 long, 0.4 high. (28). Stone, rec 0.5 long.
(29). Stone, rec 0.6 long.
(30). Hump, stone?
(31). Stone, rec. very small bit only shows. (32). Hump, stone?
(33). Stone, rec 0.5 long.
(34). Stone, rec 0.9 long.
(35). Stone, erect 0.15 high. (36). Stone, rec 0.2 long.
(37). Natural, earthfast.
Like the stone-circles at Leskernick most stones have fallen. Some
have been overgrown by vegatation and are visible only as humps.
Remarkably straight line, almost perfect east/west orientation.
Length of over 300m although eastern end possibly destroyed by
tinners? Predates one tinner's gully which cuts through it.
At western end there is a curious arrangement of 3 fairly large stones within a slight depression. Its position in relation to stone-row suggest it is associated. Perhaps a much mutilated (by tinners) prehistoric feature?
I haven't thoroughly field-walked all this area beneath Leskernick and Hendra/Carne. Maybe more to be found. (1)
SX 18707986 to SX 19017991. Stone row in good condition, situated
in open moorland on a slight east-facing slope and flatish ground at 290m OD.
The alignment of earthfast stones approximately 31.6m long lies across the floor and lower east-facing slopes of a broad re-entrant. It is oriented ENE/WSW and consists of at least 27 exposed or partially exposed stones which occur in a reasonably straight line. Added to this number are about 21 earthfast stones which lie in the immediate vicinity of the alignment and a group of 3 "squared" stones at the western end; some of these stones are most probably natural.
The majority of the stones, which include some fairly large boulders,
protrude just above the ground surface level, however, one upright
slab is 0.6m high and a second 0.4m high.
The surrounding ground has been disturbed and the surface layer of
peat has probably been cut away at some date. (The adjacent peat
mounds indicate extensive peat digging in the area.)
Surveyed at 1:2500. (2)
A plan and discussion can be found in the published report of the Bodmin Moor Project. (3) |