Category Updates
Newly discovered stone row in South Wales
In 2013 whilst out walking in the area Alan Richards found a row of stones at Graig Fawr. Recently he approached us to see what we thought about them. A site visit on the 12th August 2021 confirmed the presence of at least 96 small and medium sized stones leading away from a ring cairn […]
Stone row slide show
In these difficult times visits to all sorts of archaeological sites are limited. A slideshow bringing together photographs from all the visible stone rows in Great Britain has recently been created. It offers a rapid 25 minute journey around all the rows and highlights their considerable variety. Each slide provides an opportunity to find out […]
Stone Row Pocket Guide
A pocket guide to the stone rows has been produced intended for use on your phone. If you download the file onto your phone you will then have details of where all the plausible, probable and possible rows are, a short description and a lat long reading for your car Sat Nav. If you have […]
Featured Row – Hingston Hill
Looking eastward along the row The web page for this impressive stone row has been updated following a visit in May 2019. As well as fresh photographs there is now a detailed commentary on the visual links between this stone row and the surrounding landscape. The row leads eastward from a kerbed cairn.
Gazetteer Updated
Waun Oer stone row in Snowdonia National Park, Wales The Gazetteer has recently been updated and now each page includes a link to an Ordnance Survey Map via Bing. Clicking on the NGR will open an Ordnance Map at Scale 1:25000 showing the position of the row. Click here to see the map for Waun […]
Your Top 10 stone rows
The Upper Erme stone row on Dartmoor is both the longest and most popular. This web site has been active for nearly three years and during this time some pages have proved more popular than others. We thought you might be interested to know which individual row pages have been visited most. Dartmoor rows are […]
Update: Distribution of triple rows
Cosdon on Dartmoor The page looking at the distribution of double stone rows has been updated to include the results from the fieldwork carried out during the past two years. All recorded accessible triple rows apart from Giants’ Stones, Hamna Voe, have now been visited at least once and this page should therefore only require tweaking in […]
Update: Distribution of double rows
Trowlesworthy 1 on Dartmoor The page looking at the distribution of double stone rows has been updated to include the results from the fieldwork carried out during the past two years. All known accessible double rows have now been visited at least once and this page should therefore only require tweaking in future. A number […]
Update: Distribution of single stone rows
Hingston Hill, Dartmoor The page looking at the distribution of single stone rows has been updated to incorporate the results from recent fieldwork. A series of distribution maps and charts provide an up to date insight into the distribution and varied character of these important sites.
Orientation
Radar graphs showing the orientation of different types of stone row. The stone row orientations research page has recently been updated. Analysis has shown that the orientation of the rows varies across a set of different variables and suggests that whilst not of paramount importance the row builders to varying extents took orientation into account […]
The Stone Rows of Great Britain 