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Spinster's Rock OSGR SX 701 908


Comments
Three stones  supporting a capstone, possibly the remains of a chambered cairn.
Re-erected  after collapse in 1862.

References
J.W. Chapple Description of the Drewsteignton Cromlech  (1779).
TPI VI (1830) 185.
J.G. Croker A Guide to the Eastern Escarpment of Dartmoor (1851) p21.
Dartmoor Sketches (1870?) p13
TDA
IV (ii) (1871) 409; V  (1872) 73; LXII (1930) 249;
LXXIII (1941) 221-2; LXXVIII (1946) 161-5.
G.W. Ormerod (1876) Notice of the Fall and Restoration of  Spinster's Rock.
R. Burnard Dartmoor Pictorial Records II  (1891) 23-4.
J.Ll.W. Page An Exploration of Dartmoor (1895)  186-9.
T.A. Falcon Dartmoor Illustrated (1900) x-xi, Pl 5.
R.H. Worth Dartmoor (1953) p180.
L.V. Grinsell  (DASP 36, 1978) 132, Drewsteignton I.
G.A.M. Gerrard Dartmoor  (1997) 30, 123. 
P. Newman The Field Archaeology of Dartmoor  (2011) 27. 
Dave Parks neolithic  sites, & sites.
Legendary Dartmoor See also:- http://www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk/early_tombs.htm
HER/SMR number 8440  SX 79 SW/3.
NMR number 445766 SX  79 SW 1.

Maps of the area can be found in TDA V (1892), 75, LXII (1930),  Pl XXIV.
Photographs of the site can be found in J.Ll.W. Page An  Exploration of Dartmoor, opp p48,
Burnard Dartmoor Pictorial Records  II (1891), opp p24, Falcon, Pl 5, TDA LXII (1930),
Pl XXV-XXIX, Gerrard (1997)  Fig 14, p30, & Newman (2011) p27.

A drawing, made before the collapse,  can be found in TDA LXXIII (1941) p222, and more recent ones in RH Worth Dartmoor (1953) p181. 

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