<< Our Photo Pages >> Merrivale SW row 3 - Stone Row / Alignment in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Merrivale SW row 3 Alternative Name: Merrivale 3; Butler Merrivale C; Burl Merrivale D; Worth Merrivale CCountry: England County: Devon Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Princetown Nearest Village: Merrivale
Map Ref: SX5539474761 Landranger Map Number: 191
Latitude: 50.554672N Longitude: 4.042711W
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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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 |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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lucasn visited on 27th Jun 2019 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
Anne T visited on 14th May 2019 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Merrivale Row 3/C: Without Sandy G being there to tell us, I would have struggled to identify this as a stone row in its own right, but with Sandy pointing out where it joining up at an angle with Merrivale 2/B and with the cairn at its head, it became more obvious. The cairn is recorded as a separate site page here, so I'm adding the same visit report number, as I've recorded them both together, as the Pastscape record (440357).
Richard13 visited on 1st Jul 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4
SandyG visited on 15th Feb 2015 - their rating: Cond: 3 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.
graemefield visited on 1st Jan 2008 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 3
woodini254 visited on 15th Mar 1994 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4
Twistytwirly visited - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4
AngieLake have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.14 Ambience: 4.14 Access: 3.86
Row 3 azimuth 26 length 48m GR 5539 7475 Burl calls this D.
Most of the stones are barely visible above the peat. At one end there is a cairn adjacent to the main SE row whilst at the far end there is a blocking stone across the row.
This stone row, plus the cairn at its head (northern end) are recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 440357, as MDV5001 (Short Stone Row, Merrivale) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as Historic England List ID 1013429 (Three stone alignments, ten cairns, three stone hut circles and a length of the Great Western Reave on Longash Common).
The row is also featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entries for the Merrivale C Stone Row and the Merrivale Ceremonial Complex [Photo Set 1].
The Stone Rows of Great Britain also includes an entry for Merrivale 3, describing the alignment as: "A single stone row measuring 60m long, including 14 small-sized stones situated on a gentle west facing slope with extensive views towards Bodmin Moor. The row is orientated NNE to SSW and the stone at the NNE end has been incorporated into a cairn suggesting that the cairn was added later. A restricted view of the sea may be of significance". Their entry also includes a plan of all the monuments at Merrivale, illustrating their relationships to each other, photographs, access information and a list of online resources for more information.
The SRoGB adds: "The stones at the northern end of the row have been incorporated into a later cairn. This indicates that the row was earlier than the cairn", and includes photographs illustrating this feature.
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