<< Our Photo Pages >> Longstone Hill - Standing Stone (Menhir) in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Longstone HillCountry: England County: Devon Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Okehampton Nearest Village: Meldon
Map Ref: SX56729089
Latitude: 50.699953N Longitude: 4.030241W
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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At SX 56725 90890 is the possible fallen longstone of Longstone Hill.
Update November 2019: This stone is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks website - see their entry for the Longstone Hill Standing Stone, which tells us: "(This is a) possible recumbent longstone on summit of Longstone Hill, east of Meldon Reservoir. Suggested as possible menhir by Butler and Newman".
There is no entry on Pastscape for this stone, but it is recorded on the Devon and Dartmoor HER as MDV5571 (STANDING STONE in the Parish of Okehampton Hamlets). Historic England List Entry No. 1010597 (Eighteen cairns, a length of bank and a recumbent stone forming part of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill) includes mention of this stone.
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