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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Drizzlecombe row 1 Alternative Name: Drizzlecombe A, Drizzlecombe SECountry: England County: Devon Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Nearest Town: Tavistock Nearest Village: Lee Moor
Map Ref: SX5916166949 Landranger Map Number: 202
Latitude: 50.485381N Longitude: 3.986617W
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 |
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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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Catrinm visited on 5th Jul 2020 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 3
Anne T visited on 15th May 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Drizzlecombe 1 Stone Row: Having been able to glimpse these stones rows as we walked across the moorland from Whittenknowles Rocks settlement, I couldn’t wait to see these rows at last. But, my goodness, what a richness and complexity of sites all in one small-ish area. I made careful notes throughout the day of which photographs belonged to which row, and hopefully these now all make sense.
Stone Row 1, similar in some ways to the Merrivale Rows, but then again not, had a much, much taller pillar stone. Located at the SW end of the row, this pillar stone can be seen on UK Grid reference finder: SX 59053 66858.
The stone row is unusual because it starts off as a single row (74.5m), then becomes a double row (for 47m), then back to a single row (28m to the cairn) – total length 149.5m.
I was surprised to see quite a few walkers stroll along this valley bottom, some along the row, others not. With the River Plym to our east, the water shimmered in the afternoon light. There were also a lot of cattle in the field, but all seemed used to people and just carried on grazing.
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.
RedKite1985 visited on 5th Jun 1996 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3
cazzyjane AngieLake have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.5 Ambience: 4 Access: 3
The upper 30 metres of the row, running from the cairn, are fairly large slabs set edge on in a single row, but many of these stones are missing or displaced. The next 50 metres of the row is a double row, with pairs of stones set just under a metre apart, but the whole thing seems to have been just thrown together, with no particularly well matching pairs or anything. The last part of the row is again single, running the last 70 metres down to the 3 metre tall terminal longstone, which is set in line with the row.
The stones are generally between 0.5 and 1 metre tall, lined up in the direction of the row, spaced at approximately 2 metres from each other, but they are not particularly evenly spaced or well set, it all seemingly just thrown together. The line is not particularly straight, either.
It has been said in some sources that the row was probably first a single row, and at some later time conversion to a double row was started, but the evidence does not really match this theory, one big point being that the double row part is positioned so that the single rows are aligned to its centre, whereas doubling a single row would have one continuous line throughout.
Update July 2019: For more information, please click on the following links:
Pastscape Monument No. 438622;
Historic England List ID 1014145 (which schedules "Three stone alignments, 15 cairns, a cist, a partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement and a small clapper bridge at Drizzle Combe");
Devon and Dartmoor HER: MDV14777 (Drizzlecombe Stone Rows);
Stone Rows of Great Britain: Drizzlecombe 1 (which also documents 'Sea views' from Drizzlecombe 1); and
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Drizzlecombe S. Stone Row.
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