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<< Our Photo Pages >> Lanacombe 1 - Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue in England in Somerset

Submitted by thecaptain on Tuesday, 01 October 2002  Page Views: 7864

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Lanacombe 1
Country: England County: Somerset Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Nearest Town: Lynton  Nearest Village: Simonsbath
Map Ref: SS78104278  Landranger Map Number: 180
Latitude: 51.171230N  Longitude: 3.745032W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
2 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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SandyG visited on 13th Apr 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 2 Plenty of car parking is available at Brendon Two Gates at SS 76510 43254. From here head east across the moorland. The ground is uneven.

TheCaptain TimPrevett have visited here

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Lanacombe 1 submitted by thecaptain : One of the larger, but fallen stones, has some markings carved into it, possibly TD. (Vote or comment on this photo)
This stone setting is more nearly on the ridgetop of Lanacombe Hill, with super views to the south and east. My notes I had with me told me that there are 13 stones, with two fallen.

It is hard to say just what the heck is here, but I found about 13 stones standing, or side set stumps standing proud of the ground. There are also one or two fallen stones. There are probably 10 stones still standing properly, each about two feet tall. It is possibly two roughly parallel rows of stones, with a sort of cross row near the southern end, but this is not obvious.

There are possibly originally many more stones up here than I found today, now hidden in amongst the marshy undergrowth. One of the larger, but fallen stones, has some markings carved into it, possibly TT.

Update November 2019: The Lanacombe 1 double stone row is featured on the Stone Rows of Great Britain website. Their entry includes a description, a simplified plan of the row with its associated cairns, photographs of the alignment and the individual stones, access information and a list of online resources for more information.

The row is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 867254 and as MSO6948 - Lanacombe I (Large stone setting at Lanacombe) on the Exmoor National Park HER. The row is also scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1014273 (Lanacombe 1: a stone setting and two cairns on the east side of Lanacombe).

The SRoGB also gives a link to The Miniliths of Exmoor Project: Report on the 2009 excavations.
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Lanacombe 1 submitted by SandyG : Simplified plan of Lanacombe 1 stone row showing position of numbered stones (After Quinnell, N.V. and Dunn, C.J., 1992 published by Gillings, M. & Taylor, J., 2011, 25). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Lanacombe 1 submitted by SandyG : Stone 13 measures 0.45m long by 0.36m wide and stands up to 0.12m high. View from south east (Scale 1m). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Lanacombe 1 submitted by SandyG : Stone 12 measures 0.86m long by 0.24m wide and stands up to 0.40m high. The small stones around this slab represent the remains of a small cairn. View from north east (Scale 1m). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Lanacombe 1 submitted by SandyG : Stone 11 measures 0.33m long by 0.27m wide and stands up to 0.37m high. View from east (Scale 1m). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Lanacombe 1 submitted by SandyG : Stone 10 measures 0.37m long by 0.16m wide and stands up to 0.15m high. View from south east (Scale 1m). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Lanacombe 1 submitted by SandyG : Stone 9 measures 0.40m long by 0.09m wide and stands up to 0.42m high. View from south east (Scale 1m).

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Lanacombe 1 submitted by SandyG : Stone 8 measures 0.30m long by 0.15m wide and stands up to 0.50m high. View from south east (Scale 1m).

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Lanacombe 1 submitted by SandyG : Stone 7 measures 0.36m long by 0.06m wide and stands up to 0.13m high. View from south east (Scale 1m).

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Lanacombe 1 submitted by SandyG : Stones 5 and 6. Stone 5 (right of ranging rod) measures 0.43m long by 0.19m wide and stands up to 0.10m high. Stone 6 (in front of ranging rod) measures 0.53m long by 0.29m wide and stands up to 0.05m high. View from south (Scale 1m).

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Lanacombe 1 submitted by SandyG : Stone 4 measures 0.47m long by 0.10m wide and stands up to 0.56m high. View from south west (Scale 1m).

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Lanacombe 1 submitted by SandyG : Stone 3 measures 0.27m long by 0.09m wide and stands up to 0.38m high. View from north east (Scale 1m).

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Lanacombe 1 submitted by SandyG : Stone 2 measures 0.23m long by 0.08m wide and stands up to 0.23m high. View from north (Scale 1m).

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Lanacombe 1 submitted by SandyG : Stone 1 measures 0.33m long by 0.18m wide and stands up to 0.66m high. View from south (Scale 1m).

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Lanacombe 1 submitted by SandyG : The upper part of the stone row. View from the south east (Scale 1m).

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Lanacombe 1 submitted by SandyG : Looking north west along the row (Scale 1m).

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Lanacombe 1 submitted by SandyG : Looking north west along the row. Stone 12 and cairn in the foreground (Scale 1m).

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Lanacombe 1 submitted by SandyG : Looking north west along the row (Scale 1m).

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Lanacombe 1 submitted by SandyG : View from above and south east of the stone row (Scale 1m).

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Lanacombe 1 submitted by SandyG : View from above and south east of the upper part of the stone row (Scale 1m).

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Lanacombe 1 submitted by SandyG : The northern part of the stone row. View from south (Scales 1m).

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Lanacombe 1 submitted by thecaptain : One of the more prominent stones of this large Exmoor stone setting. There are probably 10 stones still standing properly, each about two feet tall.

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Lanacombe 1 submitted by thecaptain : This stone setting is nearly on the ridgetop of Lanacombe Hill, deepest Exmoor, with super views to the south and east. Well, there would have been super views if it wasn't all misty.

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Lanacombe 1 submitted by thecaptain : There are probably 10 stones still standing properly, each about two feet tall.

Lanacombe 1
Lanacombe 1 submitted by thecaptain : There are possibly originally many more stones up here than I found, now hidden in amongst the marshy undergrowth.

Lanacombe 1
Lanacombe 1 submitted by thecaptain : It is possibly two roughly parallel rows of stones, with a sort of cross row near the southern end, but this is not obvious.

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The Miniliths of Exmoor Project 2009, Mark Gillings et al by Andy B on Friday, 13 January 2017
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The Miniliths of Exmoor Project, Report on the 2009 excavations
Mark Gillings, Jeremy Taylor (University of Leicester) & Josh Pollard (University of Bristol)

The fieldwork described forms part of a broader research initiative that seeks to contextualise and understand a group of unique, yet to date largely un-investigated, prehistoric stone monuments that occur across the upland landscape of Exmoor, southwest England. Referred to as 'stone settings', a total of 59 of these structures have been identified on the moor, with new discoveries taking place regularly (Riley & Wilson-North 2001; Jamieson 2002; Riley 2007). Assumed to be of later Neolithic-early Bronze Age date, these monuments take a variety of geometric, semi-geometric and apparently random forms with no known parallels. They are remarkable not only for their unusual configuration, but also their diminutive size: component stones frequently standing to heights of 0.2m or less, leading Aubrey Burl to describe them rather aptly as 'minilithic' (Burl 1993: 88). The surviving settings are virtually invisible in the landscape and the smaller examples could conceivably have been erected by a single person in the space of an afternoon. This relative frailty and invisibility has also made them particularly susceptible to damage, and even the most cursory examination of on-going condition surveys reveals a number of recently toppled standing stones

https://www.academia.edu/30758179/The_Miniliths_of_Exmoor
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Re: Lanacombe 1 by TheCaptain on Thursday, 16 April 2009
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Report from a fairly recent survey and excavation at this stone setting can be found here.

It seems that they were here just after my visit a couple of years ago.
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    Excavation and Survey at the Stone Settings of Lanacombe I and III by Mark Gillings by Andy B on Friday, 13 January 2017
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    I'm not sure if this is the same report but the one you linked to has now disappeared

    Excavation and Survey at the Stone Settings of Lanacombe I and III by Mark Gillings
    https://www.academia.edu/30758187/
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Re: Lanacombe 1 by TheCaptain on Thursday, 13 December 2007
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While poking about at one of the fallen stones, I found a little adder curled up underneath it. I put the stone back in order to shelter the poor thing, as it was very cold and blowy up here when I was visiting in March 2007.

I also found a horseshoe. So it just goes to show that there is treasure to be found amongst these ancient stones if you know what to look for.
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Re: Lanacombe 1 by TheCaptain on Sunday, 09 December 2007
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Further details from the Somerset Historic Records.

"Ground littered with broken rock, site is something more than a setting. Length is longer than usual setting. To the W is perhaps the remains of a Neolithic field system - is this site the remains of a Neolithic village?." Walker M 1993 in HER files.

"The suggestion that the setting represents a former settlement of Neolithic date is completely unfounded and is not borne out in the slightest by the archaeological evidence. " RCHME Exmoor survey (1996).

"Eleven upright stones and two fallen or displaced, forming a complex arrangement perhaps representing more than one setting. Uprights 0.3 to 0.65m high. One stone has the letters TD inscribed on its east face, and there are similar letters on the north- east face of another surrounded by a small cairn. A second cairn 9m N of these." RCHME "Lithic Monuments... " 1992.
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