<< Our Photo Pages >> Penn Beacon SW - Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Penn Beacon SWCountry: England County: Devon Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Nearest Town: Ivybridge Nearest Village: Lee Moor
Map Ref: SX5952062471 Landranger Map Number: 202
Latitude: 50.445221N Longitude: 3.979878W
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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SandyG visited on 7th Jul 2013 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 2 Car parking is available at SX 57055 63069. From here take the track leading north east which follows the northern edge of the Whitehill Yeo china clay pit. Follow this track to SX 59215 62584 then head ESE for about 330m.
Burl gives the location as SX 595 625. I know it to be SX 5952 6247. It is a very short, 14m long double row descending from a large & prominent cairn. There are just two pairs of stones near the cairn but others show through the turf in line downhill. There is no obvious end to the row & it is not known how long it was or how many stones really remain.
Update November 2019: This row is featured on the Stone Rows of Great Britain website - see their entry for Penn Beacon, South West, which tells us: "(this row is) a double stone row measuring 5.8m long, including 4 medium-sized stones situated on a south west facing slope. The row is orientated north east to south west and leads from a large cairn. This row was almost certainly originally much longer".
The SRoGB entry also includes a plan of the stone alignment and its associated cairn, photographs of the alignment, the cairn and the individual stones, access information and a list of online resources for more information.
The row is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 439282, as MDV2399 (Stone row 600 metres south-west of Penn Beacon) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as Historic England List ID 1017400 (Double stone alignment with a large cairn south-west of Penn Beacon).
This row is also included on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Penn Beacon S.W. Stone Row, which gives us a link to "Researches into some ancient tumuli on Dartmoor" by Bate, 1872, which includes Pennbeacon.
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