Merrivale Stone Row - Northern Avenue
by Lesley Evered
Title
Merrivale Stone Row - Northern Avenue
Artist
Lesley Evered
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Photograph - Pentax K30
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The smaller of the Bronze Age stone rows at Merrivale in the Dartmoor National Park, Devon. (UK). The stones are made of granite and form avenues across open moorland………
This picture was voted into shared 3rd place in the contest "Ancient Stone Circles or Rows or Stand Alone Monoliths in UK" in the Best Of British group, 16th January 2022......
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Merrivale Stone Row....
The site includes a 3.8m standing stone, a stone circle and stone rows consisting two stone avenues running parallel to each other on either side of a stream. The southern avenue is 263.5 metres long and has the remains of a barrow in the middle. The northern avenue is slightly shorter. The stone row shown in this picture is the closest to the B3357 and to the north of the leat and is about 180 metres or 590 feet long. Both avenues are only about 1 metre wide down the centre. The southernmost double row has a kistvaen set within the stone row. The eastern end of the rows is passed by a section of the Great Western Reave, running roughly NW-SE. (Wikipedia)
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September 27th, 2020
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Comments (9)
Mark Haynes
These are amazing Lesley. Inspired by a novel I read recently I went looking and discovered a smaller but quite similar double stone line near Stackpole in Pembrokeshire. There don't seem to be any records of it except in "The Stone Maiden Prophecy" by James Christopher. (I got it from Amazon). I'm amazed how many of these there are if we look, a true lost past.
Lesley Evered replied:
Thanks for writing Mark and for favouriting this one. Having read your message I googled again the Merrivale rows and discovered that there are, in fact, 60 more stone rows on Dartmoor although most of those are situated in inaccessible areas. Lucky for us Merrivale is close to the road!!
Kay Brewer
Congratulations on your 3d place win in the Ancient Stones contest! voted l/f
Lesley Evered replied:
Thank you very much Kay for voting for this one and for your kind congratulations....also the like and favourite are very much appreciated.
James Brunker
Excellent, congratulations on your 3rd place in the Ancient Stones - Best of British Group contest!
Lesley Evered replied:
Thank you very much James for your kind congratulations and thanks too for favouriting this picture.
Michaela Perryman
Congratulations, Third Place - Ancient Stones - Best of British Group - January 2022
Nicklas Gustafsson
Beautiful picture!
Lesley Evered replied:
Thanks so much Nicklas....it is, indeed, a beautiful place to be. Thanks very much too for making this a favourite...greatly appreciated
Michaela Perryman
Love this l/f and congratulations on your features
Lesley Evered replied:
Thanks so much Mik for such a lovely comment and extra thanks for the like and favouriting.
Martha Sherman
A wonderful capture of these rows! This was the best angle. I didn’t much like what I got there, to my sorrow since I loved the place.
Lesley Evered replied:
Thanks Martha....I am so pleased you liked visiting here and thanks for your favouriting of this picture. Maybe one day you can come again.....what a happy thought!
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