Shovel Down Fourfold Circle Standing Stone

Photo taken on 06-06-2010

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Shovel Down Ceremonial Complex
OS Map: SX 65958 86033
OS Source: Google
HER record: 6158
Megalithic Portal: 3464
PMD: Fourfold circle
Alternate name: Shovel Down Fourfold Circle
Short Name: SS Shovel Down
Butler map: 36.6
DPD page: 143
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Cairn Class: No
Barrow Report: 56
Dimensions (m): 3.4
Lidar: SX65968603
Notes: "The south end [of the double row] is aligned on a cairn 'Fourfold Circle' (SX 68 NE 17) and separated from it by two massive fallen stones, one 'needle-shaped' and similar to the 'Longstone' (SX 68 NE 39), southern terminal of stone row 'E'."
Nearby sites: SX65968603

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.

• Bate, C Spence, On the Prehistoric Antiquities of Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.4 pp.491-516 (1871)
• Brailsford, J. W, Bronze Age Stone Monuments of Dartmoor, Antiquity Volume 12, Number 48 pp.444-63 (1938)
• 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)
• Pettit, Paul, Prehistoric Dartmoor, (1974)
• 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)
• 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, Barrow Report 56, T.D.A. Vol.69 pp.75-109 (1937)
• Worth, R. Hansford, The Dartmoor Menhirs, T.D.A. Vol.72 pp.191-200 (1940)
• Worth, R. Hansford, Retaining circles associated with stone rows Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.73 pp.227-38 (1941)