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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Drizzlecombe row 3 Alternative Name: Drizzlecombe B, Drizzlecombe NW; Butler Row 3; Worth Row B; NMR Row 1Country: England County: Devon Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Tavistock Nearest Village: Lee Moor
Map Ref: SX5924367071 Landranger Map Number: 202
Latitude: 50.486498N Longitude: 3.985508W
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 |
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3 | Ordinary |
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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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Anne T visited on 15th May 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Drizzlecombe Stone Row 3: The last of the stone rows we visited today (although there was to be a minor, minor surprise at Yellowmead to end the afternoon). This surprising row, the same length as Row 1, and bends in the middle (it’s not straight).
We split the visit to this row into two; the first part was looking at the eastern end of the row and the cairn; the second was after we’d wandered up slope to look at the larger cist, the settlements and another large cairn. We then meandered back down Row 3. It was on the way back that I found a compass between the tussocks of grass, covered in heavy dew and I thought the moisture had got inside the mechanism and was ruined. I was going to leave it by the stones in case anyone collected it, but given where it was, we concluded no-one was likely to walk along this particular spot between the rows. I later found out that it was a military compass, probably dropped by one of the many soldiers who carry out exercises in this location.
The longstone at the eastern end of the row was intriguing. It appeared to be undressed granite, and bore some sort of resemblance to the marker stone seen earlier today, but is most definitely part of row 3. The large, but friendly, cattle in the field liked to lean against it, presumably because it absorbed the heat of the sun, or to scratch.
SandyG visited on 7th Apr 2013 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Car parking is available at SX 57887 67306. The row is about 1400m ESE of the car park across open moorland.
Catrinm visited - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 3
cazzyjane have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.67 Ambience: 4.33 Access: 3
Single stone row 150 metres in length on a northeast - southwest alignment. The row has a 2.3 metre tall longstone at the lower SW end, flat faces in line with the row. The row goes uphill to the uphill NE end where there is a small cairn surrounded by a nice ring of stone slabs, referred to here as the C circle, which is just a few yards to the northwest of the cairn at the top of row 2.
Update July 2019: This stone row is recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 438622, and forms part of the scheduling information for Historic England List ID 1014145. The Devon and Dartmoor HER also includes a record for this row; see MDV3376 (Alignment, Drizzlecombe).
The Stone Rows of Great Britain also features a page for this row - see their entry for Drizzlecombe 3, and also explores restricted sea views from along the row (Sea Views at Drizzlecombe 3, adding: "This stone alignment measures 149.5m long and includes a single line of at least 69 slabs. The length of this alignment is exactly the same as Row 1 which is unlikely to be a coincidence and will have been important to their builders. The cairn at the top of the row is only 20m away from the one at the top of Row 2 and the view towards the sea is therefore only very slightly different".
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks also features entries for this stone row - see their entries for the Drizzlecombe N.W. Stone Row and the Drizzlecombe Ceremonial Complex (Photos 1).
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