Yellowmead Stone Row
Photo taken on 19-05-2018
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Yellowmead 4-fold Cairn Circle
OS Map: SX 57482 67842
OS Source: SRGB
HER record: 80769
Megalithic Portal: 2202
The Stone Rows of GB: Yellowmead Down
PMD: Yellowmead Stone Row
Alternate name: Yellowmead Down
Short Name: SR Yellowmead
Butler map: 47.14
DPD page: 31
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Cairn Class: No
Barrow Report: 41 56
Dimensions (m): 28.4
Lidar: SX57486784
Notes: "A group of four concentric stone circles of which the innermost one is considered to be a cairn circle. Three stones were standing in 1921 when all the fallen stones were raised during restoration. There also appears to have been a stone row leading away from the stone circles." and "The double row as planned by Worth except that one stone is now missing. It is 6.9m long with mostly small line slabs, set on edge. They are about 0.3m long and 0.3m high, the intervals between stones and between the rows being 0.8m".
Nearby sites: SX57486784
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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.
- Brailsford, J. W, Bronze Age Stone Monuments of Dartmoor, Antiquity Volume 12, Number 48 pp.444-63 (1938)
- Breton, Henry Hugh, The Forest of Dartmoor, (1990)
- Robinson, Rosmary and Greeves, T. A. P., Two Unrecorded Prehistoric Multiple Stone Rings, Glasscombe, Ugborough, South Dartmoor, D.A.S.P. No.39 pp.33-66 (1981)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 41, T.D.A. Vol.54 pp.69-72 (1922)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 56, T.D.A. Vol.69 pp.75-109 (1937)