Drizzlecombe S. Standing Stone
Photo taken on 17-06-2010
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Drizzlecombe Ceremonial Complex (Photos 1)
OS Map: SX 59057 66868
OS Source: PDW
HER: MDV14778
Megalithic Portal: 16927
PMD: Drizzlecombe Standing Stones
Alternate name: Drizzlecombe S.
Short Name: SS Drizzle S
Butler map: 49.19
DPD page: 40
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Cairn Class: No
Dimensions (m): 3.2 x 1.8 x 0.4
Lidar: SX 59057 66868
Nearest Bus Stop: Meavy Primary School (4.6 km) [Route: 56]
Nearby sites: SX 59057 66868
Notes
Terminal stone of the southern double row at Drizzlecombe. The standing stone at the southwest end measures 1.8 metres by 0.4 metres and is 3.2 metres high. Re-erected in 1893. Lethbridge Row A pp.38-42. Diagram p.38. Worth's Row 17/Row A.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.
- Brooking Rowe, J., Dartmoor Menhirs - Seventeenth Report of the Committee on Scientific Memoranda, T.D.A. Vol.25 p.172 (1893)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.3: The South-West, (1994)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Dartmoor Menhirs, T.D.A. Vol.72 pp.191-200 (1940)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Stone Rows of Dartmoor Part 1, T.D.A. Vol.78 pp.285-316 (1946)
- Worth, R.N., Barrow Report 12, T.D.A. Vol.22 pp.49-52 (1890)