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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Scorhill Alternative Name: Gidleigh Circle; Turner G6 Butler (map 38.8)Country: England County: Devon Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Chagford Nearest Village: Teigncombe
Map Ref: SX65468738 Landranger Map Number: 191
Latitude: 50.670495N Longitude: 3.905277W
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 |
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Phillwhite visited on 18th Jun 2021 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 2 Like most of the Dartmoor circle, it's a bit of a trek but worth it.
Monoman visited on 1st Sep 2019 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 3 I visited Scorhill a few years back. The weather was favourable to begin with and then a Bank of cloud rolled in from the north. The atmosphere change noticeably and we soon noticed both our phone batteries had drained down. It's a magical place.
TwinFlamesKiss visited on 1st Apr 2013 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 3 About a half mile nice walk from car park.
graemefield visited on 1st Aug 2008 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 2
woodini254 visited on 16th Mar 1994 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 3
Lazulilou visited - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 2
Silkscream visited - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 2
SandyG Bladup cazzyjane AngieLake TheCaptain Ahdzib NickyD have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.71 Ambience: 4.71 Access: 2.43
Only thirty-four stones remain of an original sixty-five to seventy, and only twenty-five of those are still standing. Two cart-tracks run right through the ring, making its appearance even more dramatic. The stones are not evenly spaced, and the tallest, at 2.5m (8 feet 2 inches), is located in the NW. There is a prostrate massive slab,1.8m (6 feet) long and 1.5m (5 feet) wide, slumped at the SSW. The 2.4m (8-foot) pillar at the NW is set radially to the perimeter of the circle, and its alignment with the most northerly moonrise from the centre of the circle might indicate an attempt to incorporate astronomy into the construction of the circle.
Update December 2019: This stone circle with its associated standing stone is recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 443556, as MDV6122 (Stone Circle, Scorhill Down), and scheduled as part of Historic England List Entry No. 1018915 (Scorhill stone circle, three cairns and a length of reave).
The stone circle is also featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entries for the Scorhill Stone Circle, the Scorhill Circle Standing Stone and the Schorhill Stone Circle (Walk). PDW describes this site as "one of Dartmoor's most attractive sites".
Access: Short walk from Batworthy Corner, over clapper bridge crossing River North Teign, or a small parking area is available at Scorhill farm.
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