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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Drizzlecombe menhir 1 Alternative Name: Drizzlecombe menhir ACountry: England County: Devon Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Tavistock Nearest Village: Lee Moor
Map Ref: SX5905766860
Latitude: 50.484556N Longitude: 3.988048W
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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philw visited on 23rd Aug 2021 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 2
Anne T visited on 15th May 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Drizzlecombe Menhir 1: I counted this pillar stone as part of the stone row, although Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks and Pastscape record it separately. I have switched some of my photographs over to this site page. Beautiful stone, and lovely location.
Catrinm visited - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 3
SandyG TheCaptain cazzyjane NickyD have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.67 Ambience: 4.33 Access: 2.67
The stone is in line with the row, and not across it as a blocker. It's width is about 2 metres wide at the base, just 50 cm at the top, where it is thicker than at the base, 50 cm at the top, about 30 cm at the bottom.
This stone is recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 439030, which tells us: "The stone is significant because the area is otherwise stone free and, like a blocking stone, it faces the cairn 280m. to the NE".
This standing stone also features on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks website - see their entry for Drizzlecombe S. Standing Stone.
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