Merrivale Ceremonial Complex
Photo taken on 25-07-2010
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Merrivale Ceremonial Complex [Photo Set 2]
OS Map: SX 5545 7479
OS Source: Constructed
HER: MDV14795
Megalithic Portal: 2046
PMD: Merrivale
Alternate name: Merrivale
Short Name: CX Merrivale
DPD page: 16
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Cairn Class: No
Lidar: SX 5545 7479
Guide Map: 33
Nearest Bus Stop: Merrivale Dartmoor Inn (0.9 km) [Route: 98,171,172]
Nearby sites: SX 5545 7479
Notes
The Merrivale Ceremonial Complex consists of a stone circle a large menhir and two double stone rows and burial cairns. See also: Legendary Dartmoor: Merrivale Ceremonial Complex. Lethbridge pp.16-18, diagram p.16.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)
- Brent, Francis, Prehistoric Remains on Dartmoor, Journal of the British Archaeological Association Vol.39 pp.217-222 (1883)
- Emmett, D.D., Stone rows: the traditional view reconsidered, D.A.S.P. No.37 pp.94-114 (1979)
- Morgan, John, Bronze Age Geometry: the layout of the Ceremonial Site at Merrivale, T.D.A. Vol.148 pp.191-206 (2016)
- Newman, Phil, An Archaeological Survey of an area of Walkhampton Common, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, Southwest Landscape Investigations (2019)
- Wilkinson J. Gardner, The Rock-basins of Dartmoor, and some British Remains in England, Journal Brit. Arch. Assoc. xvi. pp.101-132. (1860)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Retaining circles associated with stone rows Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.73 pp.227-38 (1941)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Stone Rows of Dartmoor Part 1, T.D.A. Vol.78 pp.285-316 (1946)
- Worth, R.N., The Stone Rows of Dartmoor - Part 1, T.D.A. Vol.24 pp.387-417 (1892)
- Worth, R.N., The Stone Rows of Dartmoor - Part 4, T.D.A. Vol.27 pp.437-442 (1895)