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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Glasscombe Ball North Alternative Name: Glasscombe Ball N; Glasscombe Ball, NorthCountry: England County: Devon Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Ivybridge
Map Ref: SX6573360429 Landranger Map Number: 202
Latitude: 50.428323N Longitude: 3.891694W
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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Catrinm visited on 14th Apr 2024 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 3 Stones just visible April 2024 I will post a picture
SandyG visited on 9th Mar 2013 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 2 Car parking is available at SX 64338 59550. Follow the bridleway heading east to SX 65769 59963 where the track of a disused railway line is encountered. Follow this north to SX 65716 60429. The row is situated close to this point. A visit to this row should be combined with others in the vicinity.
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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2 Ambience: 3.5 Access: 2.5
The stones are fairly large, but not a single one is still standing. The row would have started at a cairn on top of the ridge and progressed in a south-easterly direction away from it. With all the stones flattened to the ground, the layout of the original row is not easy to determine, but would have been at least 80 metres in length. There is no obvious western end to be found, the tramway cuts across the row here, but I could see no more obvious stones beyond that. The remains of the cairn are well knocked about, but it can still be seen standing out against the skyline from the trackway.
I didn’t have long to look about here, as there was a large herd of cattle crossing the moor at this point while I was there on solstice eve, many of which were bullocks which seemed to take a dislike to my presence, and sort of herded me away !
Update October 2019: This stone row is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Glasscombe Ball N. Stone Row, which tells us: "(this is) a stone row extending between two cairns. The north-east cairn is 0.6m high and is now elongated north-west to south-east to 6.0m. by 4.0m, and is turf-covered. The south-west cairn, 4.0m. in diameter and 0.8m. high is of close-packed stones and turf-covered". Also see their entry for the The stone rows of Butterdon Hill, Piles Hill & Glasscombe
The row is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 441946 and as MDV5659 (Stone row on Ugborough Moor, near Glasscombe Ball). The row is also scheduled as Historic England List ID 1017610 (Stone alignment and two cairns to the north-west of Glasscombe Ball).
This stone row is also included in the Stone Rows of Great Britain website - see their entry for Glasscombe Ball, North, which includes a description, photographs of the alignment and the individual stones, a plan of the row with its associated cairns, access information plus links to other online resources for more information. The SRoGB also includes a section for 'Landscape Comments', which discusses and illustrates the 'slivers of sea' views and the promontories visible from the row.
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19m S 187° Glasscombe Ball North (South Cairn)* Cairn (SX65736041)
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639m NW 316° Piles Hill Cairns* Cairn (SX653609)
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824m SW 229° Harford Moor N* Stone Row / Alignment (SX651599)
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1.1km S 176° Butterdon Hill Cist* Cist (SX6578159341)
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