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Summary

An upright slab stone of 0.7 metres high, 0.9 metres wide and is 0.1 metres thick. The stone is significant because the area is otherwise stone free and, like a blocking stone, it faces a cairn 280 metres to the north-east. Similar stones on the opposite valley sides probably relate to the medieval or later holding at Ditsworthy.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX56NE188
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 439030
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/490

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• STANDING STONE (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Worth, R. H., 1967, Worth's Dartmoor, 210, map (Monograph). SDV337618.

There is a standing stone 330 feet NW of the standing stone at the southwest end of the southernmost stone row on Drizzlecombe (SX 56 NE 46). Its relationship to the other stone rows here, especially the two northern examples, suggests that it was intended to construct a stone row between this standing stone and the barrow (SS 56 NE 41) aligned northwest of those terminating those stone rows.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1980, SX56NE188 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV220895.

(10/09/1980) At SX 58996693 there is an upright slab stone set in an SE to NW direction. It measures 0.7m. high, 0.9m. wide and is 0.1m. thick.
The stone is significant because the area is otherwise stone free and, like a blocking stone, it faces the cairn 280m. to the NE. There are, however, no intermediate stones.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on MSD

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

Not recorded.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 135, Map 49, Figure 49.18 (Monograph). SDV137656.

'Stone' shown to the west of Drizzlecombe stone rows.

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

(15/08/1999) This stone is as described by the Ordnance Survey (1980). A number of similar stones (SX 56 NE 242) lie on the opposite bank of the Drizzlecombe Brook though these are probably related to the farm at Ditsworthy.

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

Cartographic Engineering, 2006, Dartmoor 2006 1:1250 Aerial Photography (digital) (Aerial Photograph). SDV345590.

Visible on aerial photograph.

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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