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Art as Metaphor: The Prehistoric Rock-art of Britain

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<< Our Photo Pages >> Pig Hill (S) - Standing Stones in England in Devon

Submitted by thecaptain on Sunday, 18 March 2007  Page Views: 8122

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:
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.
4 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
5

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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

Pig Hill (S)
Pig Hill (S) submitted by thecaptain : It is a great pity that one of the stones has recently been broken, possibly by somebody driving a 4x4 over the moor (the tracks are everywhere), perhaps horses, or perhaps maybe just wanton vandalism, as a pathway runs right past this stone. (Vote or comment on this photo)
The southern Pig Hill Stone Setting is a nice Exmoor stone setting to visit, although it is not that easy to find. It is on a west facing slope above Farley Water, about 400 metres west of the B.3223 road.

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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Pig Hill (S)
Pig Hill (S) submitted by SandyG : Plan of Pig Hill multiple stone row. The stones shown red have been moved from their original locations and placed beside upright slabs. From an original survey at 1:200 by Sandy Gerrard, Janet Daynes and Gordon Fisher. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Pig Hill (S) submitted by SandyG : Stone 13 (nearest the ranging rod) which is recumbent and has probably been placed beside stone 14 for safe keeping measures 1.07m long by 26m wide and 0.08m high. Stone 14 stands 0.45m high and measures 0.20m long by 0.15m wide. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Pig Hill (S) submitted by SandyG : Standing stone 9 measures 0.53m long by 0.12m wide and 0.37m high. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Pig Hill (S) submitted by SandyG : Standing stone situated within a 0.3m deep hollow. The stone measures 0.62m long by 0.10m wide and 0.42m high. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Pig Hill (S) submitted by SandyG : If only time had been kinder, the row may have looked more like this. View from the east. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Pig Hill (S)
Pig Hill (S) submitted by thecaptain : View of most of the entire stone setting, from the lower slopes looking eastish. This view shows what I saw as a line of 5 stones running at an angle through an oval. Additional picture with an attempt to make clear where the stones are, including my bag on a stump.

Pig Hill (S)
Pig Hill (S) submitted by SandyG : This stone is leaning severely and measures 0.27m square and 0.17m high.

Pig Hill (S)
Pig Hill (S) submitted by SandyG : Stone 15 is recumbent and is situated within a shallow hollow measuring up to 0.3m deep. The stone is partly buried and measures 0.27m long by 0.13m wide and up to 0.01m high.

Pig Hill (S)
Pig Hill (S) submitted by SandyG : Photograph showing the two fragments as they survive.

Pig Hill (S)
Pig Hill (S) submitted by SandyG : Standing stone measuring 0.15m long by 0.12m wide and 0.53m high. This stone which is broken into two parts was “reassembled” for this photograph. After the photograph was taken the upper part was returned.

Pig Hill (S)
Pig Hill (S) submitted by SandyG : Largely buried stone measuring 0.29m long by 0.09m wide and 0.04m high. Stones 9 and 10 in the background.

Pig Hill (S)
Pig Hill (S) submitted by SandyG : Recumbent stone 10 (on the right) measures 0.77m long by 0.20m wide and 0.10m high.

Pig Hill (S)
Pig Hill (S) submitted by SandyG : Standing stone measuring 0.37m long by 0.10m wide and 0.16m high.

Pig Hill (S)
Pig Hill (S) submitted by SandyG : Standing stone measuring 0.21m long by 0.13m wide and 0.44m high.

Pig Hill (S)
Pig Hill (S) submitted by SandyG : Standing stone measuring 0.19m long by 0.13m wide and 0.21m high. Stones 4 and 5 in background.

Pig Hill (S)
Pig Hill (S) submitted by SandyG : Standing stone measuring 0.36m long by 0.05m wide and 0.33m high. Stone 4 and 7 in the background.

Pig Hill (S)
Pig Hill (S) submitted by SandyG : Standing stone measuring 0.30m long by 0.15m wide and 0.33m high.

Pig Hill (S)
Pig Hill (S) submitted by SandyG : Standing stone measuring 0.27m long by 0.06m wide and 0.10m high.

Pig Hill (S)
Pig Hill (S) submitted by SandyG : Recumbent stone to the left of stone 1 measures 0.30m long by 0.18m wide.

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Pig Hill (S) submitted by SandyG : View from the west (Scale 1m).

Pig Hill (S)
Pig Hill (S) submitted by SandyG : Looking west across the row.

Pig Hill (S)
Pig Hill (S) submitted by thecaptain : Attempted view of the whole stone setting, seen here from the lower part looking uphill to the east. Additional picture with an attempt to make clear where the stones are.

Pig Hill (S)
Pig Hill (S) submitted by thecaptain : View of the lower part of the stone setting looking southish. Additional picture with an attempt to make clear where the stones are.

Pig Hill (S)
Pig Hill (S) submitted by thecaptain : The stones at the upper end of the oval, with my bag marking a stump, and adding some scale.

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Re: Pig Hill (S) by TheCaptain on Sunday, 18 March 2007
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It is a great pity that one of the stones has recently been broken, possibly by somebody driving a 4x4 over the moor (the tracks are everywhere), or perhaps maybe just wanton vandalism, as a pathway runs right past this stone.

All around here the bracken and heather has been mechanically cut fairly recently, I wonder how many more stones there were to be found, which have now been destroyed.
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