Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Spinsters' Rock
OS Map: SX 70098 90789
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV8440
Megalithic Portal: 149
PMD: Spinsters Rock
Alternate name: Spinsters Rock
Short Name: NT Spinsters
Butler Vol 5: p.155
Grinsell: List A DREWSTEIGNTON 1
DPD page: 150
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Barrow Report: 56
Lidar: SX 70098 90789
Nearest Bus Stop: Chagford Sandy Park Inn (2.1 km) [Route: 173,178,671]
Nearby sites: SX 70098 90789
Notes
Chambered tomb restored in 1862. No evidence to confirm or deny the existence of an original mound survives. The remains of the chamber consist of three granite orthostats 6 to 9 1/2 feet high which support a large capstone 14 1/2 feet long by 10 feet wide. No trace of any mound survives. It is associated with the nearby stones thought to have been circles and alignments (SX 69 SE 25) (see
Shilstone Common &
Spinster's Rock page).
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.
- Burnard, Robert, Early Man, The Victoria History of the County of Devon: v. 1 (1906)
- 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.5: The Second Millennium B.C., (1997)
- Chapple, William, Description and Exegesis of Drewsteignton Cromlech, (1779)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Lukis, W.C, Report on the Monuments of Dartmoor, Proceeding of the Society of Antiquaries Vol.8 (1881)
- Ormerod, George Wareing, Letter: Drewsteignton Cromlech, Notes and Queries Vol.2 3rd S.(30) p.70 (1862)
- Ormerod, George Wareing, Notice of the fall and restoration of the Spinster's Rock, T.D.A. Vol.4 pp.409-411 (1871)
- Ormerod, George Wareing, Notice of Pre-Historic Remains Formerly Existing Near Drewsteignton Cromlech, T.D.A. Vol.5. pp.73-74 (1872)
- Pilkington-Rogers, C. W., The Date of the Dartmoor Antiquities, T.D.A. Vol.64 pp.379-388
(1932)
- Swete, John, On some of the more remarkable British Monuments in Devon, Essays, by a society of gentlemen, at Exeter pp.106-130 (1796)
- Swete, John, A Tour Across Dartmoor Into North Devon, Devon Notes & Queries, Vol.1, pp.88-96 (1901)
- Tyler, Major F. C., The Stone Remains in Drewsteignton
, T.D.A. Vol.62 pp.248-260
(1930)
- Wilkinson J. Gardner, British Remains on Dartmoor, Journal Brit. Arch. Assoc. xviii. pp.22-53, 111-133. (1862)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 56, T.D.A. Vol.69 pp.75-109 (1937)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Dartmoor: 1788-1808, T.D.A. Vol.73 pp.203-226 (1941)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Stray notes on the Teign Valley, T.D.A Vol.78 pp.161-170 (1946)