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Photo Pages: Porlock Circle - Stone Circle in England in Somerset
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Submitted by EquinoxeAncientTours on Friday, 10 November 2006 Page Views: 9156
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 Site Name: Porlock Circle Country: England County: Somerset Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Porlock Nearest Village: West Porlock
Map Ref: SS84514467 Landranger Map Number: 181
Latitude: 51.189549N Longitude: 3.653994W
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 |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 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. |
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Accuracy:| 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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The Porlock Allotment Circle is a much damaged stone circle on Exmoor in Somerset. It can be found just behind the hedge to the west of the minor road from the A39 to Exford, not far south from the Whit Stones.
If visiting from the Whit Stones, turn left out of the car park, then turning right off the A39 fairly soon, heading southbound towards Exford. Before long, you will see a small bridge in a dip ahead of you, and to your right, a sheepfold. The stone circle is just before the sheepfold. We parked just after the bridge, on the left hand side as there was room, but be aware of some ditches nearby.
I first looked for the stone row, which should point SE, across the road from the circle, but after 20 minutes of stomping through the heather and checking and re-checking the map, I had no success. So I then crossed the road, and found the circle with no problem. It is just to your right when you go through the gate.
What I found was a very spread out circle, consisting of 20 stones, many of which have been placed there very recently, and are very loose. The stones range in height from 7 inches, to 32 inches, though some are sunken. One fallen stone, on the east side is 6 feet long, with a couple outliers just to the NW. There was a also a sunken stone in the middle, with offerings left: polished crystals (such as quartz), polished pebble, 50p, 20p, 10p and 2p coins, sea shells, berries, a button, and decomposing remains of fruit!
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 Porlock Circle submitted by thecaptain
View of the "large" stone still standing on the western side of the circle, and its neighbour.
My bag and the grass give a good idea of the small scale of these Exmoor "megaliths".
 Porlock Circle submitted by thecaptain
View south over the eastern arc of the circle.
Spot the stones, I see 5.
 Porlock Circle submitted by thecaptain
There are at least three (relatively) large stones still in place, the largest being just under 2 metres in length, but laying flat on the ground.
This is the view of the northeastern arc of the circle, with the large stone in the foreground. About 6 stones can be seen in this picture with a bit of care.
 Porlock Circle submitted by thecaptain
Just uphill to the north is another little standing stone, and the remains of a cairn. It looks possible that there was once more stones here. Is this the remains of another little row associated with the circle ?
This is the view to the south from the cairn over the circle.
 Porlock Circle submitted by bec-zog
Porlock Common:
The much damaged stone circle
 Porlock Circle submitted by bec-zog
Porlock Common: The much damaged stone circle
 Porlock Circle submitted by bec-zog
PORLOCK; Cairn adjacent to stone circle.
 Porlock Circle submitted by ShropshireTraveller
Porlock Allotment Stone Circle and Stone Row
 Porlock Circle submitted by ShropshireTraveller
Porlock Allotment Stone Circle and Stone Row
SS848447
Date Visited Wednesday 3rd May 2000
Not far at all from the Whit Stone is the Porlock Allotment Circle and Row. If visiting from the Whit Stones, turn left out of the car park, then turning right off the A39 fairly soon, heading southbound towards Exford. Before long, you will see a small bridge in a dip ahead of you, and to your right, a
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500m W 272° Porlock Allotment NE* Standing Stones (SS84014471)
629m SW 245° Porlock Allotment Centre Stone Row / Alignment (SS840443)
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1.4km N 4° Porlock Common NE Stone Row / Alignment (SS846461)
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1.7km W 248° Hoscombe SE Stone Row / Alignment (SS831438)
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2.6km SW 225° Madacombe* Stone Row / Alignment (SS831425)
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2.9km NW 320° Culbone Hill* Stone Row / Alignment (SS832473)
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4.1km SE 149° Hoar Moor (W) Standing Stone (Menhir) (SS85864075)
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4.4km SW 223° Wester Mill Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue (SS822409)
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4.5km W 249° Beckham Hill* Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue (SS80644239)
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Re: Porlock Circle (Score: 1)
by TheCaptain on Friday, 10 November 2006
(User Info | Send a Message) | Porlock Common Stone Circle, Exmoor, Somerset.
Visited Sunday, 24th September 2006.
SS8451 4467, Alt 407m, Access 5, Ambience 4, Condition 2
Drive south along the Exford road from Whitstone Post junction, and after a couple of kilometres there is a place to park by the little bridge just south of the gated entrance to the sheepfold beside the stone circle. The circle is easily found just inside the field to the west of the road, and just north of the sheepfold.
The diameter is about 25 metres and somebody has made a little stone box full of tat in the middle. A geocache ? I counted 16 stones, but many of these are just loose stones placed on the surface. There are at least three (relatively) large stones still in place, the largest being just under 2 metres in length, but laying flat on the ground. Most of the stones are tiny, but several do obviously stand proud of the ground and are well fixed.
The circle is not in a very prominent position, and the views are not far in any direction, it being in a sort of hollow not far from a stream.
Just uphill to the north is another little standing stone, and the remains of a cairn. It looks possible that there was once more stones here. Is this the remains of another little row associated with the circle ?
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