Shovel Down

Shovel Down is an area of Dartmoor in Devon that is covered in megaliths including the remains of several stone rows, the Fourfold Stone Circle, and several standing stones [1]. The Shovel Down stone row complex occupies the northern and southern slopes of a broad east-west ridge of unenclosed moorland [1]. It is of probable Bronze Age date [1]. Approximately five double stone rows and one single stone row are to be seen [1]. The Fourfold Circle is a configuration of four concentric stone circles [1]. The Fourfold Circle is the location of a turf-covered cairn with a central cist which has been robbed [1]. The Long Stone stands in the middle of two stone rows [1]. It is referred to as the "Langstone" in a documentary source of 1240 [1].