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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Cosdon Hill Multiple Stone Rows Alternative Name: The GraveyardCountry: England County: Devon Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Nearest Town: Okehampton Nearest Village: South Zeal
Map Ref: SX64349159 Landranger Map Number: 191
Latitude: 50.708073N Longitude: 3.922664W
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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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 |
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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 |
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graemefield visited on 23rd Aug 2016 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 2
SandyG visited on 1st Jun 2013 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 2 Car parking is available at SX 65810 91500. From here head south west to Shilley Pool. Carefully cross the stream and walk north west up the steep slope for about 850m. The row is the visually most impressive triple row in Great Britain and well worth the effort of getting to.
dotjay visited on 11th Jun 2011 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 3
TheCaptain have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.67 Ambience: 4.67 Access: 2.33
The three parallel rows run off down the hillside from the cairn in an approximately easterly direction, spaced about 1.5 metres apart, for a distance of at least 140 metres, perhaps up to 180 metres to where possibly a large triangular blocking stone can be found.
The rows are not straight, and curve slightly to the south, then back north down the hill. As usual, the larger stones are near to the cairn, between 2 and 3 feet high, and they generally get smaller the further away from the cairn they are, with a few notable exceptions.
Each of the rows has a large slab placed across the rows at its end by the cairn, but these are perhaps not their original positions, and do not line up with each other.
The upper part of these rows survives in a very good state, but the lower part of the rows remain in a much more ruinous or buried state. Partway down the rows, an old track has been driven through the rows, but even here, stones still remain standing between the two sections of the cut track way.
A smashing place to while away some time.
Update September 2019: This stone row is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Cosdon Stone Row, which tells us: "(this is) a triple stone row lies near the summit of Cosdon Hill and is 447 feet in length measured from the centre of the circled cairn which stands at the west end. At 225 feet from the west end there is a slight change in direction and the rows turn somewhat northward. This change of direction may be said to divide the row into western and an eastern section".
The row is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 444168, which adds that: "Of the two cists, one is intact, the other has been robbed of the cover-stone and two side-stones. The foot-stone of one cist also served as the headstone of the other". The row is also scheduled as Historic England List ID 1013426 (Triple stone alignment and cairn 780m east of Cawsand Beacon).
The Devon and Dartmoor HER also includes an entry: MDV6886 (Triple stone alignment and cairn 780m east of Cawsand Beacon).
The row is also recorded in the Stone Rows of Great Britain website's entry for Cosdon, which includes a description, photographs, a simplified plan of the triple stone alignment, plus access information.
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