Shoveldown 6 Stone Row
Database entries
OS Map: SX 66024 85681
OS Source: SRGB
HER: MDV6148
The Stone Rows of GB: Shoveldown 6
PMD: Shovel Down South
Alternate name: Shoveldown 6
Short Name: SR:ShovelRow 6
Butler map: 36.7.6
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Cairn Class: No
Dimensions (m): 170
Lidar: SX 66024 85681
Guide Map: 13
Nearest Bus Stop (Minor): Wonson Telephone Box (5.3 km) [Route: 670]
Nearest Bus Stop (Major): Chagford The Square (4.5 km) [Route: 173,178,671]
Nearby sites: SX 66024 85681
Notes
Previously listed here as Shoveldown Longstone to Three Boys Stone Row now Shoveldown 6 after Butler and Gerrard.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, Sabine, A Book of Dartmoor, (2002)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.2: The North, (1991)
- Fox, Aileen, Cairns and stone alignments on Shovel Down, Archaeological Journal Vol 114. pp.155-158 (1957)
- 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)