Search Tool: Prehistoric monuments within 2km of SX55357474
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About the database: The listings are drawn mainly from scientific journals and will not include the most recently discovered minor sites. There is comprehensive coverage of stone circles, stone rows and menhirs. Listings for cists and cairn circles should cover most of the better known sites. There are only partial entries for round cairns, settlements, pounds and none for reaves. The database is in early stages of development but now has over 400 records. The data is structured to try to minimise duplication but there are separate entries for all stone rows - so row associated structures such as menhirs and cairn circles will have duplicate entries. For listings of specific types of monument click on Resources in the menu above. Corrections, or any feedback or suggestions are very welcome, email: info@dartmoorwalks.org.uk.
NOTE: Clicking on the icons for each monument will give the name of the monument. Where icons overlap they are replaced with an icon with a number - if they are sites that are very close together then zooming in may separate them.
Merivale (S) Encircled Cairn
OS Map: SX55367459
NMR record: SX 57 SE 9
PMD: Merrivale Menhir I Stone Row
Notes: The cairn at SX 55367459, now turf-covered with an excavation pit in the centre, has a diameter of 2.4m. and a height of 0.1m
Nearby sites: SX55367459
Distance: 0.15km
Merrivale Stone Circle
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Merrivale Ceremonial Complex [Photo Set 2]
OS Map: SX55337464
NMR record: SX 57 SE 8
PMD: Merrivale Stone Circle
Notes: Turner G14. "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
Nearby sites: SX55337464
Distance: 0.1km
Merrivale Ceremonial Complex
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Merrivale Ceremonial Complex [Photo Set 2]
OS Map: SX55457479
NMR record: SX 57 SE 12
PMD: Merrivale
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
Nearby sites: SX55457479
Distance: 0.11km
Merrivale Standing Stone
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Merrivale Ceremonial Complex [Photo Set 2]
OS Map: SX55357459
NMR record: SX 57 SE 9
PMD: Merrivale Standing Stone
Notes: "Two Bronze Age standing stones with a disturbed cairn and a number of small earth fast stones. Located in open generally clitter-free moorland. Only one of the two stones still stands; it is 3.2 metres high and tapers from the base which is 0.7 by 0.5 metres in section. Whether the stone was once the focus or terminus of a stone rows is uncertain. The second stone is now fallen, it is 2.2 metres long, up to 0.4 metres wide and 0.3 metres thick. An adjacent 0.3 metre deep pit may be its socket hole. "
Nearby sites: SX55357459
Distance: 0.15km
Merrivale Cist
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Walk: Merrivale Complex
OS Map: SX55487476
NMR record: SX 57 SE 10
PMD: Merrivale
Notes: Dixon #98. Butler Vol. 3. Map 44.8.7 (diagram of location in ceremonial complex p.24, diagram of cist p.31). Grinsell WALKHAMPTON 5. "A very fine Bronze Age cist which measures internally 2.2 metres long by 0.9 metres wide and up to 0.8 metres deep. The triangular-shaped slab which forms the massive cover stone is up to 2.1metres wide and averages 0.4 metres thick; a central part has been removed by stone cutters revealing the water-filled cist and a broken fragment of the coverslab." See also, Legendary Dartmoor: The Merrivale Kist
Nearby sites: SX55487476
Distance: 0.13km
Merrivale Embanked Cairn Circle and Cist
OS Map: SX55357474
NMR record: SX 57 SE 7
PMD: Merrivale SW
Notes: Turner B2. Butler Merrivale Vol. 3. Map 44.8.8 (pp.30-1). Grinsell WALKHAMPTON 1. "The excavation of 1851 seems to have been thorough, completely destroying structural remains of both the cairn and the 'cist or inner circle',. There is now a circular turf covered area, 18.0m. in diameter, with random stones protruding through the surface. Off centre there is a hollow, 7.0m. by 4.0m. and 0.5m. deep."
Nearby sites: SX55357474
Distance: 0km
Merrivale (Menhir 1) Stone Row
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Merrivale Ceremonial Complex [Photo Set 1]
OS Map: SX55357458
NMR record: SX 57 SE 9
PMD: Merrivale Menhir I Stone Row
Notes: Butler Row 4. Prehistoric Monuments of Dartmoor website Menhir 1. "Stone row 4 is now a trivial affair [Butler] of 3 small slabs aligned towards a squarish block near the base of the standing stone. This area has suffered some damage over the past century. There were 5 stones in 1895, the missing one presumably accounted for by the pit which has appeared between the upper stones. This may well be the site of the cairn, C4, at the head of the rows recorded by Rowe but not included in the plans of Lukis or Worth. Nor is there much surviving from the circle of slabs around the menhir depicted in Bray's plan and recorded by Spence Bate in 1871, or the nearby cist which he excavated, C5. The Exploration Committee excavated at both ends of the row but no more socket holes were found and they concluded that this short alignment was complete."
Nearby sites: SX55357458
Distance: 0.16km
Merrivale A Stone Row
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Merrivale Ceremonial Complex [Photo Set 1]
OS Map: SX55557482
NMR record: SX 57 SE 12
PMD: Merrivale A Stone Row
Notes: Worth Merrivale A. Butler Merrivale 1. "Two Bronze Age double stone rows and associated cairns are located on open moorland. The rows are oriented roughly east to west and are almost parallel, being 25 metres between centres at their eastern ends increasing to 32 metres at the west. A leat still used to convey water to Hillside Stables separates the two monuments and flows to within 2 metres of the northern row. A single row (see SX 57 SE 115) runs roughly south-west from a small cairn at SX 55397476, some 4.75 metres south of the south row."
Nearby sites: SX55557482
Distance: 0.22km
Merrivale B Stone Row
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Merrivale Ceremonial Complex [Photo Set 1]
OS Map: SX55447478
NMR record: SX 57 SE 12
PMD: Merrivale B Stone Row
Notes: Butler Merrivale 2. Worth Merrivale B. For description see Merrivale A
Nearby sites: SX55447478
Distance: 0.1km
Merrivale C Stone Row
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Merrivale Ceremonial Complex [Photo Set 1]
OS Map: SX55397475
NMR record: SX 57 SE 115
PMD: Merrivale C Stone Row
Notes: Butler Merrivale 3. Worth Merrivale C. "A stone row and a small cairn lie to the south of the double stone rows in close-cropped moorland turf. The cairn located at the northern end and slightly off-centre to the row, measures 3.2m across and up to 0.5m high. An 0.3m deep central pit opens out on the southern side. There is no obvious kerb or cist but a transverse slab, the terminal slab of the row, is set within the south side of the mound. The existence of this slab suggest that the row pre-dates the mound. The stone row extends for 41.7m in a southerly direction to an upright stone (SX553774720). However, during the English Heritage 1999 survey a further stone was located on the same alignment beyond this stone indicating an overall length for the row of at least 60m. The new partially buried stone at SX55337484 is visible as a rounded stone 0.15m across; it is similar to others in the row. A total of six upright stones, six stones protruding through the turf and about ten slight depressions, now indicate this 60m long alignment. The transverse stone within the cairn is 0.5m by 0.4 and 0.15m thick. The two adjacent in line slabs are 0.6m 0.3m by 0.15m and 0.3 by 0.2 and 0.2m thick respectively. The other large stone (SX55377472) is 0.5 by 0.4 and up to 0.4m thick. The other stones are up to 0.15m high."
Nearby sites: SX55397475
Distance: 0.04km
Merrivale double row B (centre) Encircled Cairn and Cist
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Walk: Merrivale Complex
OS Map: SX55437477
NMR record: SX 57 SE 12
PMD: Merrivale S row
Notes: Butler Merrivale double row 2, (centre) - Vol. 3. Map 44.8.1 (diagram p.27). Turner Merrivale (N) F20. Grinsell WALKHAMPTON 4.
Nearby sites: SX55437477
Distance: 0.09km
Merrivale North Embanked Cairn Circle
OS Map: SX55327484
NMR record: SX 57 SE 6
Notes: Turner B8
Nearby sites: SX55327484
Distance: 0.1km
Mis Tor Farm Embanked Cairn Circle
OS Map: SX56927595
NMR record: SX 57 NE 49
Notes: Turner B13.
Nearby sites: SX56927595
Distance: 1.98km
Vixen Tor Cist
OS Map: SX54247440
NMR record: SX 57 SW 5
PMD: Vixen Tor
Notes: Dixon #41. Bar Rep. 39. Butler Vol. 3. Map 44.10.1 (diagram p.34). Grinsell WHITCHURCH 2.
Nearby sites: SX54247440
Distance: 1.16km
Yellowmeade Farm Cist
OS Map: SX56347445
NMR record: SX 57 SE 14
PMD: Yellowmeade Farm NW
Notes: Butler Yellowmeade 1 - Vol. 3. Map 44.1.
(diagram p.17). Grinsell WALKHAMPTON 7 (Yellowmeade Farm).
Nearby sites: SX56347445
Distance: 1.03km