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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Fernworthy Alternative Name: FroggymeadeCountry: England County: Devon Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Nearest Town: Chagford Nearest Village: Chagford
Map Ref: SX65488410
Latitude: 50.641020N Longitude: 3.903802W
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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Catrinm visited on 18th Mar 2018 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 3
The Fernworthy series of monuments is easily found by driving to the Ferworthy Lake, and continuing around the perimiter road as far as possible before parking in the large parking area provided. From here, take the forest trackway back in a westerley direction up a slight hill, and then after a couple of hundred yards at a junction taking the trackway to the left. After a few more hundred metres, the forest opens out on the right hand side into a green open area within which the monuments stand.
This area was in recent times covered by forest, and is still almost completely covered with rotting tree stumps, making any progress away from the obvious pathways difficult. It can (as it was today) also be very wet and boggy, fully living up to its alternative name of Froggymead.
Most of these monuments are marked with small wooden posts, on top of which have been placed markers, a number and a letter, for which there is no obvious translation, but which I have included in the alternative names where I can remember them.
Descriptions of the monumental components will be contained on their own sitepages (see nearby sites list below).
The Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website includes entries for the Fernworthy Ceremonial Complex and the Fernworthy Ceremonial Complex (including the Fernworthy Stone Circle), which add: "The Fernworthy circle is part of a group of ceremonial monuments including 3 stone rows and 5 cairns that may once have rivalled Merrivale and Shovel Down as ceremonial centres. The site is in a small clearing in Fernworthy Forest off the path from the reservoir to Teignhead Farm".
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5m N 349° Fernworthy stone row SW* Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue (SX6547984105)
10m W 269° Fernworthy Cairn SW* Cairn (SX65478410)
10m N 356° Fernworthy circle* Stone Circle (SX65488411)
14m SE 134° Fernworthy Cairn SE* Cairn (SX65498409)
32m SSE 160° Fernworthy stone row SE* Stone Row / Alignment (SX65498407)
76m SSE 155° Fernworthy Cairn 4* Cairn (SX65518403)
85m ESE 109° Fernworthy Cairn E* Cairn (SX65568407)
238m NNE 13° Fernworthy Cairn N* Cairn (SX65548433)
243m NNE 12° Fernworthy stone row N* Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue (SX6553884336)
578m W 269° Froggymead Settlement* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX649841)
674m WSW 247° Hemstone Rocks Ring Cairn and Cist* Cairn (SX6485283850)
688m WSW 243° Hemstone Rocks Platform Cairn Circle* Cairn (SX6485683806)
741m WSW 243° Fernworthy settlement* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX6481183777)
1.1km SE 129° Lowton Brook West Settlement* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX663834)
1.1km ESE 111° East Lowton settlement* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX6653783668)
1.3km ENE 78° Thornworthy Cairn* Cairn (SX6674284335)
1.3km NNW 346° Stonetor Hill Stone Ring Cairn Circle Ring Cairn (SX65198535)
1.3km E 92° Metherall Settlement* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX66838401)
1.4km N 349° Stonetor Hill Cairn Circle* Cairn (SX6525085470)
1.4km NNE 20° Shovel Down row 7* Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue (SX660854)
1.5km NNE 20° Three Boys* Standing Stone (Menhir) (SX66038548)
1.5km NNE 23° Thornworthy Corner North Cist (SX66118546)
1.5km NE 50° Thornworthy Down Stone Row / Alignment (SX66688505)
1.5km N 351° Stonetor Brookhead East Cist (SX65288563)
1.6km SSE 156° Assycombe Hill* Cairn (SX66108264)
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