Langstone Moor Stone Circle

This photograph, taken on the 16th October 1894, shows Langstone Moor Stone Circle following its restoration by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee. The Dartmoor Exploration Committee included in its membership, Robert Burnard and the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Burnard writes in his 'Dartmoor Pictorial Records': "The fine 'sacred' circle on Langstone or Launceston Moor has been hitherto strangely overlooked. It lies above the group of hut circles, opposite Greena Ball, and about one mile N.N.W. of Great Mistor. It was recently observed by the Rev. G.B. Berry of Plymouth, who reported it to the author. All the stones of which are from five to six feet long to the number of sixteen had fallen, but through the liberality of His Grace the Duke of Bedford the whole of these have been, this autumn, set up in the pits in which they originally stood, under the superintendence of the Rev. S. Baring Gould. The circle is 57 ft. in diameter, and stands on a stoneless moor, presenting a most striking appearance when approached from the north, with Great Mistor towering up behind it."