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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Pig Hill (S)Country: England County: Devon Type: Standing Stones
Nearest Town: Lynton Nearest Village: Simonsbath
Map Ref: SS7567944460 Landranger Map Number: 180
Latitude: 51.185807N Longitude: 3.780226W
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 22nd Jan 2017 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Car parking is available at SS 76006 44289. Take care when crossing the road.
TheCaptain TimPrevett have visited here
What I found was 9 stones making up an oval, with at least one more stone inside, and one or perhaps two stones outside the oval. The stones are generally about a foot tall, although some are a bit more. Most are pillar shaped, but a few are slabs. As I saw it, the oval was 28 metres by 16 metres, and no doubt once had more stones.
On further investigation, it looked to me as though there is a row of stones which runs right through the oval, with an outlier on the downhill side, and a fallen stone uphill from the oval, which with the stone inside made a decent straight line of 5 stones. So maybe the setting is a sort of phi (Ø) shape.
Beside two of the uphill stones are additional laying stones, which may have been placed beside them from elsewhere.
In my copy of “From Carnac to Callanish”, by Aubrey Burl (1993), he notes this as a multiple row of three or four rows, 38 metres long, 14 metres wide. I have also seen it described as a semicircle and outlier.
Update November 2019: This alignment is featured on the Stone Rows of Great Britain website - see their entry for Pig Hill, which includes a description, a plan of the row from a survey carried out in January 2017, photographs of the alignment and its individual stones, access information and a list of online resources for more information.
The SRoGB also includes a clever recreation of how this fan-shaped, multiple row might have looked (main photo on their site page).
The row is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 890145 and as MDE9885 (Prehistoric stone setting on Pig Hill) on the Exmoor National Park HER.
Note: Pictures just in of one of the enigmatic Exmoor Stone Settings, including evidence of recent damage. Most of these sites are fragile and hardly known, and rapidly disappearing.
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