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This Page Contains Details of all Stone Rows within Map Square 65

Butter Brook 1
Butter Brook 1 OSGR SX 6512 5987

Comments 
Cairn is at the lower end. 

References 
DAS Newsletter Feb 1980. 
J. Butler Atlas of Antiquities IV (1993) 53.11. 
Dave Parks row 77:- stone rows, & row table.
Sandy Gerrard The Great Stone Rows of Britain

HER/SMR number 13166 SX 65 NE/247
NMR number 441245 SX 65 NE 71

A plan of the site can be found at Butler IV (1993) p31-2. 
Maps of the area can be found at Butler IV (1993) p30, IV (1993) p24, 30, and Gerrard (1997) Fig 37, p60. 

Butter Brook 2
Butter Brook 2 OSGR SX 6520 5998

Comments 
Possibly two rows ? 

References 
J. Butler Atlas of Antiquities IV (1993) 53.11. 

SMR Number SX 65 NE/247. 

A plan of the site can be found at Butler IV (1993) p31-2. 
Maps of the area can be found at Butler IV (1993) p30, IV (1993) p24, 30, and Gerrard (1997) Fig 37, p60. 
Dave Parks row 78:- stone rows, & row table.
Sandy Gerrard The Great Stone Rows of Britain

HER/SMR number 13166 SX 65 NE/247 
NMR number 441245 SX 65 NE 71 

Butterdon
Butterdon OSGR SX 65630 58809

Comments 
Serves as border of parishes of Harford and Ugborough, and marked as on a map possibly dating to 1240, or 1478. It runs from a cairn with possible cist near Butterdon Hill, through Hobajon's Cross, to a longstone on Piles Hill (which was re-erected in 1990). 

References 
Worth 2. 
TDA IV ii (1871) 515; V (1872), 510ff; XXIV (1892) SRD I, 402; XXXVII (1905) 460-461; LXI (1929) 274; LXIX (1937) 306; LXXII (1940) 193; LXXIII (1941) 214-7, 229f; LXXVIII (1946) SRD I, p287-8. 
R.H. Worth Dartmoor (1953) p202-4, 205, 267. 
Davidson & Seabrook DASP 31 (1973) 25 
C. Gaskell-Brown & C. Hankin DASP 33 (1975) 314.
L.V. Grinsell DASP 36 (1978) 140. 
D.D. Emmett DASP 37 (1979) 111. 
P. Pettit Prehistoric Dartmoor (1974) 98, 135-6. 
E. Hemery High Dartmoor (1983) 254, 260-1. 
Dartmoor Magazine 24 (Autumn 1991) 3. 
G. Thurlow Dartmoor Companion (1993) 110. 
J. Butler Atlas of Antiquities IV (1993) 53.8. 
Dave Parks row 2:- stone rows, & row table.
Sandy Gerrard The Great Stone Rows of Britain

HER/SMR number 2988 SX 65 NE/6 and 5710 SX 66 SE/38 
NMR number 441148 SX 65 NE 17 

Photographs of the site can be found at TDA LXXIII (1941) Pl V, and Butler IV (1993) p114, V (1997) p230. 
Plans of the site can be found at TDA LXXIII (1941) p230, DASP 31 (1973) Fig 2, and Butler IV (1993) p24-6. 
Maps of the area can be found at DASP 49 (1991) 145, and Gerrard (1997) Fig 37, p60. 

Cantrell
Cantrell OSGR SX 6570 5718

Comments 
Unusual in being oriented slantwise down the slope. 

References 
Worth 62* (61). 
TDA XL (1908) SRD VIII, p281, LXXVIII (1946) SRD I, p315. 
R.H. Worth Dartmoor (1953) p235. 
C. Gaskell-Brown & C. Hankin DASP 33 (1975) 314.
L.V. Grinsell DASP 36 (1978) 172, Ugborough 24. 
D.D. Emmett DASP 37​ (1979) 111. 
J. Butler Atlas of Antiquities IV (1993) 53.12. 
Dave Parks row 62:- stone rows, & row table.
Sandy Gerrard The Great Stone Rows of Britain

HER/SMR number 2889 SX 65 NE/7 
NMR number 441214 SX 65 NE 44 

Plans of the site can be found at TDA XL (1908) p282, Butler IV (1993) p34, and Gerrard (1997) Fig 16, p32. 
A map of the area can be found at Butler IV (1993) p35. 

Butterdon E.
Butterdon E. OSGR SX 6590 5920

Comments 
Three recumbent stones, probably those referred to by Worth, on Beacon Plain. 
See Beacon Plain menhirs SX 659 592 Beacon Plain. 

References 
TDA LXXII (1940) 193-4. 
Worth Dartmoor (1953) 267.
Davidson & Seabrook DASP 31 (1973) 29, 38. 
C. Gaskell-Brown & C. Hankin DASP 33 (1975) 314.
​J. Butler Atlas of Antiquities IV (1993) p25; V (1997) 216, 218.
Sandy Gerrard The Great Stone Rows of Britain

HER/SMR number 2888 SX 65 NE/4 and 2883 SX 65 NE/4/1 
NMR number 441154 SX 65 NE 19 

Plans of the site can be found in DASP 31 (1973) Fig 15, p38. Butler V (1997) Fig 150. 
A map of the area can be found at Butler IV (1993) 24. 

Spurrell's Cross
Spurrell's Cross OSGR SX 65854 59854

Comments
 
Double, but only a few stones still stand. 

References 
Worth 5. 
TDA XL (1908) SRD VIII p282; LXXVIII (1946) SRD I, p288-9. 
R.H. Worth Dartmoor (1953) p206. 
C. Gaskell-Brown & C. Hankin DASP 33 (1975) 314.
L.V. Grinsell DASP 36 (1978) 172. 
D.D. Emmett DASP 37 (1979) 111. 
J. Butler Atlas of Antiquities IV (1993) 53.10 
Dave Parks row 5:- stone rows, & row table. 
Sandy Gerrard The Great Stone Rows of Britain

HER/SMR number 2890 SX 65 NE/8 
NMR number 441145 SX 65 NE 16 

Plans of the site can be found at TDA XL (1908) p281 and Butler IV (1993) p28. 
A map of the area can be found in Gerrard (1997) Fig 37, p60. 

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