Stalldown Stone Row

Photo taken on 19-03-2011

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Stalldown Stone Row
OS Map: SX 63223 62558
OS Source: SRGB
HER record: 4277
Megalithic Portal: 531
The Stone Rows of GB: Stalldown
PMD: Staldon Stone Row
Alternate name: Stalldon Row
Short Name: SR Stalldown
Butler map: 54.18
Butler Vol 5: p.20 & Fig.2
DPD page: 67
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Cairn Class: No
Dimensions (m): 859
Lidar: SX63226256
Notes: "Bronze Age stone row and cairn circle on stall down. The stone row runs north -south for about 850m ow which 500m has been restored. It is associated with three cairns (one either side) and a cairn circle. The stones are mostly 1m to 1.5m high with four over 2m". Lethbridge pp.67-68
Nearby sites: SX63226256

References

These are selected references with an emphasis on out of copyright sources linked as PDFs. For more detailed references try any linked HER record. For some records there are very good resources on the Prehistoric Monuments of Dartmoor (PMD) website by Bill Radcliffe. Barrow reports are linked above as are references to Butler, Grinsell and Turner.

• Baring-Gould, Sabine, Fourth Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, T.D.A. Vol.29 pp.145-65 (1897)
• Brailsford, J. W, Bronze Age Stone Monuments of Dartmoor, Antiquity Volume 12, Number 48 pp.444-63 (1938)
• Davidson, C. & Seabrook, R., Stone rings on south-east Dartmoor, D.A.S.P. No.31 (1973)
• Emmett, D.D., Stone rows: the traditional view reconsidered, D.A.S.P. No.37 pp.94-114 (1979)
• Newman, Phil, The Upper Erme Valley Dartmoor National Park Devon An Archaeological Survey, Southwest Landscape Investigations (2018)
• Worth, R. Hansford, Retaining circles associated with stone rows Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.73 pp.227-38 (1941)
• Worth, R. Hansford, The Stone Rows of Dartmoor Part 1, T.D.A. Vol.78 pp.285-316 (1946)