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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Merrivale Centre Row Alternative Name: Merrivale Southern Avenue; Butler Merrivale 2; Worth Merrivale B; Merrivale 2Country: England
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County: Devon Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Nearest Town: Princetown Nearest Village: Merrivale
Map Ref: SX55567478 Landranger Map Number: 191
Latitude: 50.554884N Longitude: 4.040376W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Catrinm visited on 9th Jan 2025 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4 Been here dozens of times but never in the snow...
lucasn visited on 27th Jun 2019 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
Anne T visited on 14th May 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Merrivale 2/Merrivale Centre Row: As we progressed further south over the moorland, and not far from Merrivale 1 (the northern-most row) at that, the stone rows kept getting better and better.
The row features a triangular blocking stone at the eastern end and twin blocking stones at the western end. It runs for 262.5m from SX 5530 7475 to SX 5556 7478 - see Pastscape 44056. The stones seem to vary in size quite a lot, and generally larger than those of the northern row/row 1/row A.
Richard13 visited on 1st Jul 2018 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
markj99 visited on 28th Nov 2017 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 3 It is always surprising to me when I encounter long stone rows in moorland. This particular one has significant termini and a central cairn. The stones are relatively small but two out of three ain't bad!
SandyG visited on 6th Jul 2016 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4 Car parking is available at SX 55313 75017 or SX 56050 74895. The row is a short walk away from either car park. It is worth having a look at the well preserved Bronze Age settlement a short distance to the north of the row.
TwinFlamesKiss visited on 1st Feb 2014 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3
jeffrep visited on 19th May 2011 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
LPhillips visited on 1st May 2009 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3
graemefield visited on 1st Jan 2008 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 3
andraste visited - their rating: Amb: 5 Access: 3 I regularly visit here, both as a walker and as a druid and its where I carry out seasonal ceremonial observances - the long walk between the double stone rows from the car park end [Four Winds car park just near Princetown] down to the end facing the Dartmoor Inn on your right at the bottom of the hill - is entralling in any weather but especially when the sky is either clear and sunny or heavy with impending storms when it is dramatic to stand where people have lived for centuries in the past and left these mysterious memories for us
Bladup rldixon TheWhiteRider davidmorgan TheCaptain AngieLake cazzyjane have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.6 Ambience: 4.45 Access: 3.55
Access: Just south of the B3357 cross-Dartmoor road, 6km from Tavistock. Pull over just past the hamlet of Merrivale.
This stone row is recorded as part of Pastscape Monument 440056, as MDV14795 (Merrivale Stone Row B, Dartmoor Forest) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1013429 (Three stone alignments, ten cairns, three stone hut circles and a length of the Great Western Reave on Longash Common).
The alignment is also featured on The Stone Rows of Great Britain website - see their entry for Merrivale 2, which includes a description, a plan of the monuments at Merrivale showing their relationships to each other, photographs, access information and a list of online resources for more information.
It is also recorded on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entries for the Merrivale B Stone Row and the Merrivale Ceremonial Complex [Photo Set 1].
Pastscape tells us this double stone row runs from SX 55307475 to SX 55567478.
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130m W 264° Merrivale Centre N* Cairn (SX55437477)
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241m WNW 283° Merrivale N circle* Stone Circle (SX5532674841)
258m SW 233° Merrivale circle* Stone Circle (SX55357463)
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