Shovel Down Long Stone Standing Stone
Photo taken on 06-06-2010
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Shovel Down Ceremonial Complex
OS Map: SX 66031 85683
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV6149
Megalithic Portal: 10378
PMD: Shovel Down
Alternate name: Shovel Down Long Stone
Short Name: SS Long Stone
Butler map: 36.6
Butler Vol 5: p.56 & Fig.34
DPD page: 140
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Hut Class: No
Dimensions (m): 3.4
Lidar: SX 66031 85683
Guide Map: 13
Nearest Bus Stop (Minor): Wonson Telephone Box (5.3 km) [Route: 670]
Nearest Bus Stop (Major): Chagford The Square (4.4 km) [Route: 173,178,671]
Nearby sites: SX 66031 85683
Notes
The Long Stone has been used as a boundary stone but it appears to be the terminal stone for a Bronze Age stone row and it may be of a contemporary date. See also, Legendary Dartmoor: The Shoveldon LongstoneGrinsell [Folklore 1976]: At the beating of the bounds of Gidleigh Common, the first man to reach the Long Stone is (or was) given a money prize. Fielden 1933. The current author has been informed this tradition continues.
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)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.5: The Second Millennium B.C., (1997)
- Fox, Aileen, Cairns and stone alignments on Shovel Down, Archaeological Journal Vol 114. pp.155-158 (1957)
- Fox, Aileen, South-West England, 3500 BC-AD 600, (1973)
- Grinsell, L.V., Grinsell, Folklore of Prehistoric Sites in England, (1976)
- Lukis, W.C, Report on the Monuments of Dartmoor, Proceeding of the Society of Antiquaries Vol.8 (1881)
- Ormerod, George Wareing, Archaeological memoirs relating to the East of Dartmoor, (1876)
- Whale, T. W., Some Remarks on the Bounds of the Forest of Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.25 pp.510-534 (1893)
- 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, The Prehistoric Monuments of Scorhill, Buttern Hill, and Shuggledown (Shoveldown), T.D.A. Vol.64 pp.280-287 (1932)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Dartmoor Menhirs, T.D.A. Vol.72 pp.191-200 (1940)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Stone Rows of Dartmoor Part 1, T.D.A. Vol.78 pp.285-316 (1946)