Beardown Man OSGR SX 5960 7962
Comments
Isolated from any other antiquity, apart from a cairn 260m to the SSW. The tallest isolated menhir, being about 3.5 m tall.
Baring-Gould (1888) suggests it was a top slab from Devil's Tor.
References
S. Rowe TPI VI (1830) p190; A Perambulation of Dartmoor (1896) 204.
R Burnard Dartmoor Pictorial Records (1890) I (1890) 51 & III (1893) 56-7.
TDA XX (1888) p160-1, LXXII (1940) 191-2.
T.A. Falcon Dartmoor Illustrated (1900) xvii-xviii, Pl 45.
R.H. Worth Dartmoor (1953) 265-6.
P. Pettit Prehistoric Dartmoor (1974) 147-8.
P. Newman The Field Archaeology of Dartmoor (2011) 36.
Dave Parks menhirs.
Megalithic Portal
HER/SMR number 4200 SX 57 NE/4
NMR number 439571 SX 57 NE 1
Photographs of the stone may be found in Burnard III (1893) opp p57, Falcon Pl 45, TDA LXXII
(1940) Pl II & III, Worth (1953) Pl 54, & 55, Pettit (1974) p125, & Newman (2011) p36.
Comments
Isolated from any other antiquity, apart from a cairn 260m to the SSW. The tallest isolated menhir, being about 3.5 m tall.
Baring-Gould (1888) suggests it was a top slab from Devil's Tor.
References
S. Rowe TPI VI (1830) p190; A Perambulation of Dartmoor (1896) 204.
R Burnard Dartmoor Pictorial Records (1890) I (1890) 51 & III (1893) 56-7.
TDA XX (1888) p160-1, LXXII (1940) 191-2.
T.A. Falcon Dartmoor Illustrated (1900) xvii-xviii, Pl 45.
R.H. Worth Dartmoor (1953) 265-6.
P. Pettit Prehistoric Dartmoor (1974) 147-8.
P. Newman The Field Archaeology of Dartmoor (2011) 36.
Dave Parks menhirs.
Megalithic Portal
HER/SMR number 4200 SX 57 NE/4
NMR number 439571 SX 57 NE 1
Photographs of the stone may be found in Burnard III (1893) opp p57, Falcon Pl 45, TDA LXXII
(1940) Pl II & III, Worth (1953) Pl 54, & 55, Pettit (1974) p125, & Newman (2011) p36.
