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Notes: These stones would have once held a store that was elevated above ground level so that produce was away from pests, etc.

We learn from Stephen Woods (1988), who is one of the earliest to photograph the staddle stones, that: “When the corn was cut it was stacked in a rick, the base being made of faggots, bundles of twigs, laid either on a low, flat mound or on a series of upright stones, to keep the corn clear of the wet ground and away from vermin. At this point it was unthreshed. Once threshed, the grains and chaff would be gathered up and separated by being tossed in a current of air, the heavy grains falling to the ground, but dust and chaff floating further afield.” It is perhaps the finest relic of this construction on Dartmoor.

Acknowledgement: The NGR is supplied in Dartmoor Tors Compendium (2017) by Josephine Collingwood.

Reference:

• Woods, S. (1988): Dartmoor Stone. Reprinted 1999.

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