<< Our Photo Pages >> Corringdon Ball N. - Stone Row / Alignment in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Corringdon Ball N. Alternative Name: Corringdon Ball ACountry: England County: Devon Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: South Brent Nearest Village: Didworthy
Map Ref: SX66616121 Landranger Map Number: 202
Latitude: 50.435542N Longitude: 3.879631W
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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SandyG visited on 10th Sep 2019 The gorse that previously covered much of the site has now been removed. As a result the row is much easier to see.
SandyG visited on 9th Jun 2013 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 2 Car parking is available at SX 68060 62906. Walk south along the public highway to SX 67931 62316. From here follow the footpath up the hill onto the open moorland.
AngieLake TheCaptain have visited here
I found a nice single row of stones, aligned in a southwest to northeast direction, which was terminated by a cairn at its east end. The stones of this row are the biggest of any here, although they are a maximum of only about a foot high, and the row can be followed for more than a hundred metres. The cairn is small, and the remains of a ring of stones can be seen around its outside.
Update September 2019: This stone row is featured on Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks - see their entry for the Corringdon Ball N. Stone Row, which tells us this is: "A single stone row, length 157 metres, spacing 1.0 metres, starting on the east with a cairn, diameter 6.7 metres, previously opened. The first stone of the row lies 18 metres west of the cairn's centre".
This stone row is also recorded as part of the entry for Pastscape Monument No. 441898 and in the Dartmoor and Devon HER as MDV5656 (Corringdon Ball A stone alignment).
This row is also scheduled as part of Historic England List ID 1013031 (Multiple stone alignment and associated cairns west of Glasscombe Upper Plantation).
The Stone Rows of Great Britain also includes an entry for: Corringdon Ball, North, which includes a description, a simplified plan of the alignments and their associated cairns, plus access information. The SRoGB notes the sea is visible from this row, which is made up of 21 small and medium stones, which run for a total length of 132m.
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