Beardown Man Standing Stone
Photo taken on 26-08-2013
OS Map: SX 59616 79634
OS Source: Google
HER record: 4200
Megalithic Portal: 4144
PMD: Beardown Man Standing Stone
Alternate name: Beardown Man
Short Name: SS BeardownMan
Butler map: 29.15
Butler Vol 5: p.220
DPD page: 108
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Cairn Class: No
Dimensions (m): 3.4 x 1.0 x 0.4
Lidar: SX59627963
Notes: A Bronze Age standing stone measuring 3.4m high, 1m by 0.4m in section and in good condition. One of the few isolated menhirs on Dartmoor. See also, Legendary Dartmoor: Dartmoor's Beardown Man. Lethbridge diagram p.107, photo p.108.
Nearby sites: SX59627963
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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.
- Baring-Gould, S, A Book of Dartmoor, (2002)
- Baring-Gould, Sabine, Some Devon Monoliths, T.D.A. Vol.20 pp.158-162 (1888)
- Brailsford, J. W, Bronze Age Stone Monuments of Dartmoor, Antiquity Volume 12, Number 48 pp.444-63 (1938)
- Burnard, Robert, Prehistoric Devon (Presidential Address), T.D.A. Vol.43 pp.44-62 (1911)
- Burnard, Robert, Dartmoor Pictorial Records, (1986)
- Pettit, Paul, Prehistoric Dartmoor, (1974)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Dartmoor Menhirs, T.D.A. Vol.72 pp.191-200 (1940)