Merrivale Stone Circle
Photo taken on 25-07-2010
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Merrivale Ceremonial Complex [Photo Set 2]
OS Map: SX 55361 74641
OS Source: Google
HER record: 4998
Megalithic Portal: 116
PMD: Merrivale Stone Circle
Alternate name: Merrivale
Short Name: SC Merrivale
Turner: G14
DPD page: 17
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Cairn Class: No
Dimensions (m): 18.6 x 20.2
Lidar: SX55367464
Notes: "A stone circle with a diameter of 20.0m. measured from northeast to southwest and 18.0m from northwest to southeast. It is formed by eleven stones spaced between 2.7m and 6.7m. apart and from 0.3m. to 0.5m. high. Three of the stones are of post type and eight are upright slabs. An additional stone, 7.5m. from the northeast side and 0.3m high, is angled towards the circle and may be quite unassociated". See also Legendary Dartmoor: Merrivale Ceremonial Complex. Lethbridge pp.16-18, diagram 16.
Nearby sites: SX55367464
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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.
- A-Z, Dartmoor Sketches, (1870)
- Baring-Gould, Sabine, Second Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, T.D.A. Vol.27 pp.81-92 (1895)
- Bate, C Spence, On the Prehistoric Antiquities of Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.4 pp.491-516 (1871)
- Bray, Anna Eliza, The Borders of the Tamar and the Tavy, vol.1, (1836)
- Burnard, Robert, Dartmoor Pictorial Records, (1986)
- Chudleigh, J, Devonshire Antiquities, (1893)
- Evans, Rachel, Home Scenes, Or, Tavistock and Its Vicinity, (1846)
- Kempe, Account of some Monuments conjectured to be British, still existing upon Dartmoor, Archaeologia 22 pp.429-35 (1829)
- Lowe, H. J., The Dartmoor Antiquities and their Builders, Transactions of the Torquay Natural History Society. 2. 134-135 (1920)
- Lukis, W.C, Report on the Monuments of Dartmoor, Proceeding of the Society of Antiquaries Vol.8 (1881)
- Page, John Lloyd Warden, An Exploration of Dartmoor and its Antiquities, with some account of its borders, (1889)
- Rowe, Samuel, A Perambulation of Dartmoor (3rd Edition), (1896)
- Thom, A and Burl, A, Stone Rows and Standing Stones, (1990)
- Wilkinson J. Gardner, British Remains on Dartmoor, Journal Brit. Arch. Assoc. xviii. pp.22-53, 111-133. (1862)