Monthly Archives: August 2019

SHORT SINGLE ROWS COMPOSED OF 10 OR MORE DIFFERENT SIZED STONES

Lluest Uchaf in Mid Wales is the only stone row of this type The only short single, single row composed of 10 or more different sized stones is to be found in Mid Wales. It is unclear why no other examples of this type of row have been identified but its uniqueness again confirms the […]

SHORT SINGLE ROWS COMPOSED OF MORE THAN 10 SMALL AND/OR MEDIUM SIZED STONES

  Lakehead Hill, East on Dartmoor Short single rows of this type are extremely rare and indeed the only two surviving examples can be found together on Lakehead Hill on Dartmoor.  The third example at Troed y rhiw in Pembrokeshire no longer survives and for this reason is of less than certain identity.  The practise of […]

SHORT SINGLE ROWS COMPOSED OF LESS THAN 10 DIFFERENT SIZED STONES

Torhousekie, East in Dumfries and Galloway There is a marked and probably significant concentration of short single rows composed of less than 10 different sized stones in Wales. Indeed more than half of all the rows of this type are to be found in Wales and there are only two in the whole of England. This […]

SHORT SINGLE ROWS COMPOSED OF LESS THAN 10 LARGE SIZED STONES

Callanish, West on the Isle of Lewis With 37 known examples, this is the most common type of stone row. The distribution of short single rows composed of less than 10 large-sized stones is very much focused on Argyll and Isles, Central Scotland and the Western Isles. Isolated examples of rows of this type also seemingly […]