Shoveldown B Stone Row
Photo taken on 14-04-2008
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Shovel Down Ceremonial Complex
OS Map: SX 65955 86026
OS Source: SRGB
HER: MDV6171
Megalithic Portal: 2129
The Stone Rows of GB: Shoveldown 2
PMD: Shovel Down A-B Stone Row
Alternate name: Shoveldown 2
Short Name: SR Shovel B
Butler map: 36.7.2
DPD page: 139
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Cairn Class: No
Dimensions (m): 182
Lidar: SX 65955 86026
Nearest Bus Stop (Minor): Wonson Telephone Box (3.8 km) [Route: 670]
Nearest Bus Stop (Major): Chagford The Square (4.4 km) [Route: 173,178,671]
Nearby sites: SX 65955 86026
Notes
Worth Row A. Butler Rows 2.('B' SX 65968615 to SX 65968601) Double row to the east. Length 596 ft. Rows 3 ft 6in apart. Row is near Batworthy enclosure and has been much robbed; now just 12 pairs of stones and 15 single. Spacing of stones along the rows is around 6 ft. Two fallen stones next to the circle are much the largest in the row; one is 11 ft 6in, in length. and the other 7ft 4 in. The southern end of the row terminates in the Fourfold Circle (SX 68 NE 17). Lethbridge 139-145, diagram p.139.References
These are selected references with an emphasis on out of copyright sources linked as PDFs. For more detailed references try any linked HER or PMD record above.
- Baring-Gould, S, A Book of Dartmoor, (2002)
- Bate, C Spence, On the Prehistoric Antiquities of Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.4 pp.491-516 (1871)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.2: The North, (1991)
- Croker, J. G., A guide to the eastern escarpment of Dartmoor, (1851)
- Emmett, D.D., Stone rows: the traditional view reconsidered, D.A.S.P. No.37 pp.94-114 (1979)
- Fox, Aileen, Cairns and stone alignments on Shovel Down, Archaeological Journal Vol 114. pp.155-158 (1957)
- Lukis, W.C, Report on the Monuments of Dartmoor, Proceeding of the Society of Antiquaries Vol.8 (1881)
- Ormerod, George Wareing, On some British and druidical remains in the parishes of Chagford and Gidleigh, T.P.I. Vol.1 pp. 20-4 (1858)
- Ormerod, George Wareing, Archaeological memoirs relating to the East of Dartmoor, (1876)
- Page, John Lloyd Warden, An Exploration of Dartmoor and its Antiquities, with some account of its borders, (1889)
- Rowe, Samuel, A Perambulation of Dartmoor (1st Edition), (1848)
- Wilkinson J. Gardner, The Rock-basins of Dartmoor, and some British Remains in England, Journal Brit. Arch. Assoc. xvi. pp.101-132. (1860)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Prehistoric Monuments of Scorhill, Buttern Hill, and Shuggledown (Shoveldown), T.D.A. Vol.64 pp.280-287 (1932)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Stone Rows of Dartmoor Part 1, T.D.A. Vol.78 pp.285-316 (1946)