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Shovel Down row 7
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 14th Oct 2004
Shovel Down row 7 submitted by thecaptain on 14th Oct 2004. Shovel Down row 7.
About 100 metres below the Three Boys Stone can be found a large flat stone, with what looks like a slab mounted on edge nearby. Could these be the remains of some form of cairn or cist associated with this now destroyed row?
Kes Tor on the horizon in this view looking northeast.
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Shovel Down row 1
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 14th Oct 2004
Shovel Down row 1 submitted by thecaptain on 14th Oct 2004. Shovel Down row 1.
At the northern end of this ruinous single stone row can be seen a few stones larger than the majority of theose remaining. Most of the remaining stones are very small and difficult to spot under the grass
This view is looking southwards along the general direction of the row.
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Three Boys
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 15th Oct 2004
Three Boys submitted by thecaptain on 15th Oct 2004. Nearly 2 metres long, this fairly large, almost fallen stone was probably once a blocking stone at the southern end of Shovel Down row 6.
Viewed looking northwest with a row 6 stone under the gorsebush
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Shovel Down row 5
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 15th Oct 2004
Shovel Down row 5 submitted by thecaptain on 15th Oct 2004. Shovel Down Row 5.
Although most of the stones in this avenue are either small or have been removed, traces of the row can be seen right to the Longstone.
View looking southwest at the lower end of the row, with Fernworthy forest in the distance.
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Shovel Down row 6
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 15th Oct 2004
Shovel Down row 6 submitted by thecaptain on 15th Oct 2004. Shovel Down Row 6
View looking south towards the Three Boys Stone. Fernworthy forest in the distance.
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Shovel Down row 4
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th Oct 2004
Shovel Down row 4 Cairn submitted by thecaptain on 16th Oct 2004. At the southern end of row 4 is a 7 metre diameter cairn with a central pit. This is the view looking west.
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Shovel Down Settlement
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th Oct 2004
Shovel Down Settlement submitted by thecaptain on 16th Oct 2004. The remains of a hut within the Shovel Down settlement. This hut still has its entrance jambs in place, set side on to the walling.
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Shovel Down
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th Oct 2004
Shovel Down submitted by thecaptain on 16th Oct 2004. Overall view of the Shovel Down site, taken looking west from Kestor on Sunday 10th October 2004.
I have tried to indicate the position of most of the various parts of this large ceremonial centre.
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The Longstone (Shovel Down)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th Oct 2004
The Longstone (Shovel Down) submitted by thecaptain on 16th Oct 2004. The awesome 3 metre tall Shovel Down Longstone.
Seen here looking southeast towards Thornworthy Tor
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Shovel Down row 3
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th Oct 2004
Shovel Down row 3 submitted by thecaptain on 16th Oct 2004. Shovel Down row 3 seen here looking north from the crest of the hill in the middle.
On the horizon is Cosdon Hill, while Scorhill circle is on the hillside in the middle distance beyond the forest.
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Challacombe rows
Date Added: 28th Apr 2022
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Apr 1988
Challacombe rows submitted by thecaptain on 21st Oct 2004. Challacome Multiple Stone Rows.
A fairly old view from Brian Byng looking up the hill along this triple stone row.
This is how I remember the place many years ago - all very overgrown. I must go back sometime to see if its any clearer now.
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The Round Pound
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Oct 2004
The Round Pound submitted by thecaptain on 23rd Oct 2004. The Round Pound, looking northwest from across the road which has been curved to pass around it.
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Kestor Settlement
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 24th Oct 2004
Kestor Settlement submitted by thecaptain on 24th Oct 2004. Kestor Rock Basin. View from the top of Kestor rocks looking southwest towards Shovel Down. This is the largest natural rock basin on Dartmoor, it is about 3 feet in diameter and is at least 2 feet deep with water throughout most of the year. I wonder if it was significant to the ancient settlers here.
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Corringdon Ball
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 24th Oct 2004
Corringdon Ball submitted by thecaptain on 24th Oct 2004. Corringdon Ball site overview.
This is the view looking southwest from Brent Fore Hill, overlooking the Corringdon Ball site. I have tried to mark out the various sites.
In the background is the Butterdon Hill to Piles Hill ridge with its enormous number of sites. Again, I have tried to mark out the various rows and features which would be seen in this view.
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Shovel Down row 2
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 27th Oct 2004
Shovel Down row 2 submitted by thecaptain on 27th Oct 2004. Shovel Down row 2 is of the typical Dartmoor style of double row, with paired stones placed about one and a half metres apart, the pairs of stones generally increasing in height towards a cairn at the upper end.
This view is looking up the remains of the upper end, which is fairly complete, towards the two giant fallen stones and the forfold circle.
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Shovel Down Fourfold Circle
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 27th Oct 2004
Shovel Down Fourfold circle submitted by thecaptain on 27th Oct 2004. The cairn at the upper end Shovel Down row 2 avenue is a nice little monument, known as the Fourfold Circle. Obviously once a mound of diameter about 9 metres, as with most of the Shovel Down sites, most of the stones have been removed for wallbuilding. What is left are four concentric rings of stone slabs surrounding a central pit. The stones are set on edge, with their flat faces facing in towards the centre of the cairn.
Viewed here lookingsouthwest with row 4 going up the hill behind
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Merrivale
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 29th Oct 2004
Merrivale submitted by thecaptain on 29th Oct 2004. Merrivale site overview.
This is the view looking west overlooking the Merrivale site. I have tried to mark out where the various features are.
The stones in the foreground are remains of bronze age reaves and ancient settlement huts and field walls.
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Merrivale Centre S
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2004
Merrivale Centre S submitted by thecaptain on 1st Nov 2004. Looking northish at the end of row 3 and the remains of its cairn.
The stones in the background are some of those in the southern (or central) avenue.
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Merrivale Centre N
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2004
Merrivale Centre N submitted by thecaptain on 1st Nov 2004. The remains of the cairn with its central cist and surrounding stone circle which is in the middle of the southern (or central) avenue
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Merrivale Centre Row
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2004
Merrivale Centre Row submitted by thecaptain on 1st Nov 2004. One of the larger and/or shaped "special stones" which make up part of the Merrivale central Avenue.
View looking south, with the unusual large capstone of the cist beyond.
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