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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Shell Top South-West stone row
Country: England County: Devon Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Yelverton/ Plymouth Nearest Village: Lee Moor
Map Ref: SX59466315
Latitude: 50.451309N Longitude: 3.980977W
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

3 Ambience:

5	Superb
4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
0	No data.

4 Access:

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.

2 Accuracy:

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
0	no data

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SandyG visited on 31st Aug 2019 The gorse has now been cleared and for the moment and hopefully for the future the row can now be seen and appreciated.

SandyG visited on 2nd May 2013 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Car parking is available at SX 57055 63069. From here take the track leading north east which follows the northern edge of the Whitehill Yeo china clay pit. Follow this track to SX 59027 63098 then head due east for about 450m.

**Shell Top South-West stone row** submitted by SandyG : The fallen terminal pillar at the northern end of the row (2nd May 2013). (Vote or comment on this photo)

A 73.5m long single stone row including about 30 slabs most of which are fallen. A large recumbent slab at the northern (upper end) probably represents a fallen terminal pillar and a spread mound at the south is likely to be a cairn.

The row is situated on a relatively steep slope but crosses the contour at a slight angle meaning that a walk along the row is relatively gentle. The row stands next to a reave, runs parallel to it and is likely to be earlier. There is no specific evidence to support this conclusion but work elsewhere on the moor has indicated that the reaves are generally more recent than the stone rows. (Butler, J., 1984, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, Vol. 3 – The South West, 173-4).

Update November 2019: This alignment is featured on the Stone Rows of Great Britain - see their entry for Shell Top, South West, which includes a description, a plan of the row and its south-eastern terminal cairn, photographs of the alignment and the individual stones, access information and a list of online resources for more information.

The SRoGB also includes a section for 'Landscape Comments' which discusses and illustrates different landscape features and sea views which come into (and out of) view as you progress along the row - "a series of promontories including Lizard Point, Dodman Point, Penlee Point and Beacon Point are all visible from this row".

The row is also included on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their page for the Shell Top S.W. Stone Row. PDW tells us this row was discovered by Lethbridge in 1992, and SRoGB adds the row runs parallel to a nearby contour reave.

There is no entry on Pastscape for this alignment, but it is recorded as MDV48897 (Stone alignment 535 meters south-west of Shell Top).
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