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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Emblance Down stone row Alternative Name: previously here as King Arthur’s RowCountry: England County: Cornwall Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Camelford Nearest Village: St Breward
Map Ref: SX13677750
Latitude: 50.567462N Longitude: 4.632497W
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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davep visited on 12th Jul 2022 - their rating: Amb: 3 Access: 3 I visited this location on Tuesday 12th July 2022. I concluded that the big stones near the wall are natural stones and not in my view artificially set. In line with these stones is a clear "reave" or bank creating an overall linear feature. This alignment is perpendicular to the current enclosure wall. The reave/bank may well be prehistoric and may well have deliberately incorporated these natural stones. In my view this is not a stone row.
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LiveAndrew visited on 2nd Sep 2021 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3
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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Ambience: 3.5 Access: 3
Walking eastwards from the two King Arthur's Down stone circles along the edge of the southern wall, and after a couple of hundred yards can be seen a large pointed stone flat to the ground. This stone is about three and a half metres long, and about a metre wide at the thicker end, which is adjacent to the wall. What I noticed that was odd about this stone, was the way that the wall seemed to have a little bump in it, and looked very like it had been built to detour around the stone, if it had been standing. It reminded me of the way the wall detours round the Gun Rith menhir, down near the Merry Maidens. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if this large stone had once been a large upright menhir.
Looking around from here, and over the other side of the wall to the south could be seen another 4 large stones laying on the surface, which not only made a perfect line with the fallen wall stone, but also have an equal spacing of about 20 metres between them. Looking back to the north, and yes, there is a sixth stone to be seen in just the right position to have been part of a large stone row here.
I can find no reference to it on any maps, in Burl or on Defra, but then again, these are by no means conclusive. There are not many stone rows to be found in these parts, but only about 20 years ago it was thought there was only one stone row in Cornwall, and this number is now significantly more. If this was a row, it would not have been too different to the Nine Maidens on St Breock Down to the west.
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