<< Our Photo Pages >> Three Boys - Standing Stone (Menhir) in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Three BoysCountry: England County: Devon Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Chagford
Map Ref: SX66038548
Latitude: 50.653550N Longitude: 3.896527W
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 |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
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 |
0 | No data. |
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 |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Catrinm visited on 18th Sep 2023 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Found this eventually with the grid ref and OS maps app... much more surrounded by undergrowth than previous pictures (Sep 23)
Anne T visited on 16th May 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 2 Access: 3 Three Boys: This was our last stop of the three days, and a lot of a let-down as someone had very recently used this stone as a toilet and left a great deal of white toilet paper around it. Yeuk! I think Gordon and/or Dave may have reported this to the authorities to clear up.
After this, we walked steadily back to the car park, took a few final photographs of the group altogether, using Janet and Gordon’s camera on my tripod on a timed setting. Then Andy, Dave, Andrew and myself headed back to Princetown to look inside the Visitor Centre.
SandyG visited on 7th Jul 2016 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 5 Access: 3 Car parking is available at SX 66205 86548. From here head SSW across open moorland to the stone rows.
TheCaptain have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.67 Ambience: 3.33 Access: 3.33
This stone is recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 443598, which tells us the other two stones were "believed to have taken for use as gateposts".
This stone also features on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks website - see their entry for the Three Boys Standing Stone. PDW also gives a link to the Devon & Dartmoor HER: MDV6180 (The Three Boys, Shovel Down). The site is also scheduled as part of Historic England List Entry No. 1017874(The North Teign coaxial field system (western part) and associated later remains at Shovel Down, Stonetor Hill and Long Ridge).
For more information also see The Stone Rows of Great Britain's entry for Shoveldown 6, of which the Three Boys is the southern blocking stone.
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