<< Our Photo Pages >> Merrivale NE circle - Stone Circle in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Merrivale NE circle Alternative Name: Merrivale cairn 1Country: England County: Devon Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Princetown Nearest Village: Merrivale
Map Ref: SX55547481 Landranger Map Number: 191
Latitude: 50.555148N Longitude: 4.04067W
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.6 Ambience: 4.4 Access: 3.6
At the eastern end of the northern double stone row is the remains of a cairn and its surrounding stone circle. The diameter is about 7 metres, and there are about half a dozen stones remaining, although only one is standing upright.
Update November 2019: This cairn is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entries for the Merrivale NE Cairn Circle and the Merrivale Ceremonial Complex [Photo Set 1].
The cairn is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 440056, as part of MDV14791 (Merrivale Stone Row A, Dartmoor Forest) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as part of Historic England List Entry No. 1013429 (Three stone alignments, ten cairns, three stone hut circles and a length of the Great Western Reave on Longash Common).
For more information about the stone row, see the Stone Rows of Great Britain's entry for Merrivale 1, which includes a plan of the monuments at Merrivale showing their relationship to each other, a description of the row, photographs, access information and a list of online resources for more information.
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