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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Sourton Tors Stone Circle Alternative Name: Sowton Tors; Corn Ridge Stone Circle; Turner G3Country: England County: Devon Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Okehampton Nearest Village: Sourton
Map Ref: SX54688958 Landranger Map Number: 191
Latitude: 50.687673N Longitude: 4.058592W
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 |
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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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The remains of this stone circle can be seen on the saddle between the slopes of Sourton Tors and Corn Ridge, just to the south of the boundary work separating the two hills.
There are 18 or 19 stones present of the circle, at about 5 or 6 metres spacing, which is a bit more than 30m diameter. Although almost all the stones are flat to the ground, one or two remain slightly sticking up at a very low angle. Each of the stones is between one and two metres in length and most are fairly rounded in shape.
This stone circle is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Sourton Tors Stone Circle, which tells us: "(This is) a stone circle, diameter about 110 ft and appearing to have comprised 32 stones of which all but six remain where they have fallen, has been discovered between Sourton Tors and Cornridge. In size it compares with the circles of the Grey Wethers and Scorhill".
The circle is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 440575, as MDV4626 (Stone circle south-east of Sourton Tors) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as part of Historic England List Entry No. 1007827 (Stone circle, cairn alignment, cider millstone and boundary ditch 410m south east of Sourton Tors).
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