Shovel Down Ceremonial Complex
Photo taken on 06-06-2010
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Shovel Down Ceremonial Complex
OS Map: SX 6597 8596
OS Source: Constructed
Megalithic Portal: 10387
PMD: Shovel Down
Alternate name: Shovel Down
Short Name: CX Shovel Down
Butler map: 36.6
DPD page: 139
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Cairn Class: No
Lidar: SX 6597 8596
Guide Map: 13
Nearest Bus Stop (Minor): Wonson Telephone Box (5.1 km) [Route: 670]
Nearest Bus Stop (Major): Chagford The Square (4.4 km) [Route: 173,178,671]
Nearby sites: SX 6597 8596
Notes
Ceremonial complex including multiple stone rows and a small stone circle. Lethbridge pp.139-145. Interesting old sketches on the RAMM website: Emanuel Jeffery sketches of Shovel Down stone rows (1839) and Emanuel Jeffery sketch of Stone Row to Shovel Down Long Stone (1839)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.
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.2: The North, (1991)
- Ormerod, George Wareing, Archaeological memoirs relating to the East of Dartmoor, (1876)