![Brisworthy Stone Circle](../resource/images/large/258B.jpg)
Plan by RHW. Barrow Report 35. 1909.
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Brisworthy Stone Circle
OS Map: SX 56467 65495
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV3983
Megalithic Portal: 542
PMD: Brisworthy Stone Circle
Alternate name: Brisworthy
Short Name: SC Brisworthy
Butler map: 49.8
Turner: G8
DPD page: 35
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Cairn Class: Maybe
Barrow Report: 29 35
Dimensions (m): 24.0 x 27.0
Lidar: SX 56467 65495
Nearest Bus Stop: Meavy Primary School (2.6 km) [Route: 56]
Nearby sites: SX 56467 65495
Notes
The Brisworthy circle underwent major reconstruction carried out by Breton and the Barrow Committee in 1909. At the time only 4 stones remained standing whilst another 21 were lying roughly in place. Some 15 stones out of 40 are missing, no doubt robbed for nearby enclosures and walls. A low rubble bank surrounds the circle which can be seen on LIDAR data. This is discussed in detail in the article 'Dartmoor Site: Brisworthy Stone Circle' linked above in this listing.
See also:
Legendary Dartmoor: Dartmoor's Brisworthy Circle. Lethbridge p.34-35. Diagram p.34 site 1.
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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 or PMD record above.
- Brailsford, J. W, Bronze Age Stone Monuments of Dartmoor, Antiquity Volume 12, Number 48 pp.444-63 (1938)
- Breton, Henry Hugh, Beautiful Dartmoor And Its Interesting Antiquities, (1990)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.3: The South-West, (1994)
- Lukis, W.C, Report on the Monuments of Dartmoor, Proceeding of the Society of Antiquaries Vol.8 (1881)
- Newman, Phil, Ringmoor Down Premier Archaeological Landscape - A new survey
, Southwest Landscape Investigations (2022)
- Turner, J.R., Ring Cairns, stone circles and related monuments on Dartmoor, D.A.S.P. No.48 pp.27-86 (1990)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 29, T.D.A. Vol.42 pp.62-3 (1910)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 35, T.D.A. Vol.48 pp. (1916)
- Worth, R.N., The Stone Rows of Dartmoor - Part 4, T.D.A. Vol.27 pp.437-442 (1895)