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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Drizzlecombe menhir 3 Alternative Name: Drizzlecombe menhir BCountry: England County: Devon Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Tavistock Nearest Village: Lee Moor
Map Ref: SX5913566986
Latitude: 50.485708N Longitude: 3.986997W
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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Anne T visited on 15th May 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Drizzlecombe Menhir 3: Again, I took this to be an integral part of Drizzlecombe Stone Row 3, so I've swapped some of my photos to this site page. I've duplicated the trip/order number with row 3 to match my walk/photo journal.
cazzyjane AngieLake TheCaptain have visited here
It is the smallest of the three large terminal stones, at 2.3 metres tall. It is a regular slab shape, almost a metre wide, and 0.3 m thick, and leans slightly to the north. It also seems to be a much pinker granite than the other large stones.
This stone features on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks website - see their entries for the Drizzlecombe N.W. Standing Stone and the Drizzlecombe Ceremonial Complex (Photos 1).
This terminal stone is recorded as part of Pastscape Monument No. 438622 and has a record on the Devon and Dartmoor HER; see MDV3377 (Standing Stone in the Parish of Sheepstor).
The stone is also scheduled as part of Historic England List ID 1014145 (Three stone alignments, 15 cairns, a cist, a partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement and a small clapper bridge at Drizzle Combe).
For more information about the Drizzlecombe Complex and the relationships between the stone row, its terminal stone an associated cairns, see the Stone Rows of Great Britain's entry for Drizzlecombe 3, which includes a description, photographs, access information and a plan of the Drizzlecombe Complex and its inter-relationships with nearby monuments.
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41m SE 125° Drizzlecombe cairn 1.* Cairn (SX5916866962)
45m SE 143° Drizzlecombe row 1* Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue (SX5916166949)
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154m NE 40° Drizzlecombe cairn 4* Stone Circle (SX5923867101)
223m N 3° Drizzlecombe cairn 13* Cist (SX5915167208)
277m SSW 201° Drizzlecombe cist 22* Cist (SX59036673)
294m NNE 32° Drizzlecombe Settlement* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX59306723)
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335m SSE 147° Giant's hill cairn* Cairn (SX59316670)
385m SE 126° Giant's Hill West* Cist (SX59446675)
427m W 263° Drizzlecombe Brook* Marker Stone (SX5870966946)
441m NNE 31° Drizzlecombe W row* Stone Row / Alignment (SX5937067360)
444m NNE 31° Cairn At Head of Drizzlecombe Row 4* Cairn (SX5937467361)
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