Beardown Man Standing Stone
Photo taken on 26-08-2013
Database entries
OS Map: SX 59616 79634
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV4200
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: SX 59616 79634
Guide Map: 25
Nearest Bus Stop: Powder Mills (5.9 km) [Route: 171]
Nearby sites: SX 59616 79634
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.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.
- Baring-Gould, Sabine, Some Devon Monoliths, T.D.A. Vol.20 pp.158-162 (1888)
- Baring-Gould, Sabine, A Book of Dartmoor, (2002)
- 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)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.2: The North, (1991)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.5: The Second Millennium B.C., (1997)
- Newman, Phil, Archaeological Sites within Merrivale Training Area, Southwest Landscape Investigations (2018)
- Pettit, Paul, Prehistoric Dartmoor, (1974)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Dartmoor Menhirs, T.D.A. Vol.72 pp.191-200 (1940)