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Natural PlacesSite Name: Ugborough Beacon Propped StoneCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.797 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Devon Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Ivybridge Nearest Village: Bittaford
Map Ref: SX6674859106
Latitude: 50.416662N Longitude: 3.876941W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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This propped stone is situated on top of the granite outcrop which makes up the central area of the cairn on Ugborough Beacon. The stone appears to originate from the outcrop itself, and is propped by a single stone inserted under the north end. No dating evidence has been recovered from the cairn, but similar features on Dartmoor are usually thought to date from the Early Bronze Age. As propped stones have generally been dated as Early Neolithic (approximately), there is the possibility that this site had religious significance over a period of a thousand years or more.
As well as other cairns, there are two chambered tombs nearby.
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