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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Buttern E Alternative Name: Buttern HillCountry: England County: Devon Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Chagford
Map Ref: SX6493988475 Landranger Map Number: 191
Latitude: 50.680216N Longitude: 3.913046W
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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graemefield visited on 1st Jan 1997 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 1
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Several of the stones of this circle have been worked by stone cutters and almost all are fallen. It is 25m dia. Five stones are standing of about 23 that are present. The tallest standing stone is 0.6 m high.
Records suggest that there was a small cairn within the circle to the S. Also there was a standing stone surrounded by a 20m dia stone circle "a short distance on the slope to the westward".
Associated with many hut circles and cairns on the E&W sides and top of the hill. Can be accessed via the Scorshill site.
Update August 2019: This stone circle is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their page for the Buttern Hill Stone Circle which tells us the remains of this Bronze Age Stone Circle is located "on level ground overlooking the valley of the North Teign River and Whitemoor Marsh".
The stone circle is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 443709 and scheduled as Historic England List ID 1018913 (Stone circle 400m south west of Buttern Hill). The Devon and Dartmoor HER also has a record for this site; see MDV4371 (Buttern Hill Stone Circle, Gidleigh).
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