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Summary

Standing stone at the west end of Drizzlecombe stone row '3' of 3.78 metres long

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1014145: Three stone alignments, 15 cairns, a cist, a partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement and a small clapper bridge at Drizzle Combe

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX 56 NE 46
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/277/2
• Old SAM County Ref: 462
• Old SAM Ref: 24104
• Pastscape: 438629

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• STANDING STONE (Constructed, Early Neolithic to XIX - 4000 BC (Between) to 1893 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map (Cartographic). SDV325644.

'Menhir' shown on early 20th century map.

Worth, R. H., 1946, The Stone Rows of Dartmoor. Part 1, 293 (Article in Serial). SDV251172.

Drizzlecombe group. Menhir at south-west end of Row A. Measures 3.78m long as fallen, 3.15m as erected.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX56NE46, Standing stone. (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV272651.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1979, SX56NE46 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV363472.

(01/02/1979) Standing stone at the south-west end of the double stone row measures 1.8 m by 0.4 m and is 3.2 m high. Surveyed at 1:10 000 on PFD and at 1:2500 for AO Records.

National Monuments Record, 1983, SF2134, 79 (Aerial Photograph). SDV231262.

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.

Recorded in project.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 133413 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(12/03/1993) When originally surveyed by Worth, the blocking stone was recumbent, however, as a result of the interest generated by his survey, the stone was re-erected in July 1893, following a small scale excavation by Baring-Gould and others to locate the original socket hole.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 135-41, Map 49, Figure 49.19 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Longstone at the west end of Drizzlecombe stone row '1' stands 3.0 metres high with the broad face in line with the stone row. Its original orientation was revealed by excavation of the socket hole. There is no record of its fall but it was probably still erect when adopted in medieval times as the north-west boundary point for the bank and ditch of a later enclosure to the south.

Devon Archaeological Society, 1995, The Drizzlecombe Stone Rows (Leaflet). SDV272662.

Fletcher, M. + Newman, P. + Probert, S., 1999, Drizzlecombe, Eylesbarrow, Ditsworthy and Hartor areas in the Plym Valley, West Devon (Report - Survey). SDV346268.

Probert, S. A. J. + Fletcher, M. J., 2002, Plym Valley survey (Report - Survey). SDV350782.

English Heritage, 2005-2008, Prehistoric Survey Information (Cartographic). SDV345521.

End of row shown on survey.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 2015-2017, 2015-2017 Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV361462.

Clearly visible on the aerial photograph in position at the south-western end of the row.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8155 - Plym Valley Survey: EH Project (Feb 2001 - Dec 2002)
• EDV4966 - Survey of Drizzlecombe, Eylesbarrow, Ditsworthy and Hartor. The Eylesbarrow archaeological landscape

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