<< Our Photo Pages >> Trowlesworthy East circle - Stone Circle in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Trowlesworthy East circle Alternative Name: The Pulpit; Grinsell Shaugh Prior 44; Turner G25; Butler (map 51.8.1)Country: England County: Devon Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Plymouth Nearest Village: Yelverton
Map Ref: SX57656398 Landranger Map Number: 202
Latitude: 50.458332N Longitude: 4.006772W
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 |
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| 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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Catrinm visited on 10th Dec 2023 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 3 Trowlesworthy East circle is quite something well worth a visit. Drive to the car park at the end of the road off towards the china clay works
Catrinm visited on 29th Jan 2022 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4 fabulous circle with double stone row off - well preserved
SandyG visited on 16th May 2015 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 3
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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4 Ambience: 4.67 Access: 3.33
At the uphill, northern end of the Trowlesworthy double row, is the scattered remains of a round cairn of about 7 metres diamater with a surrounding circle of 8 standing stones, ranging in height from 0.6 to 1.2 metres, which is known as "The Pulpit". As seems usual, the largest stone, a very strangely shaped slab of 1.2metres, and very leaning, is positioned at the head of the rows.
A 130m (426-foot) avenue of stones leads up a slight rise from the South to join this nice 6.7m (22-foot) circle. The tallest stone of the circle stands where the avenue joins the circle, and stands radially to it rather than facing the centre. It is suggestive of an entrance that was never completed. Commonly called "The Pulpit", the circle's stones vary in height from 0.7m (2 feet 3) inches to 1.3m (4 feet 2 inches).
Update December 2019: This cairn is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Trowlesworthy Warren (E) Cairn Circle and Trowlesworthy, Settlements, Stone Row & Cairn Circle.
This cairn is also recorded as part of Pastscape Monument No. 439217, as MDV49511 (Stone circle 370 metres south-west of Great Trowlesworthy Tor) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as part of Historic England List Entry No. 1012114 (Double stone alignment with a terminal stone setting south of Great Trowlesworthy Tor).
For more information about the associated stone row, see the Stone Rows of Great Britain's entry for Trowlesworthy 1 (Double Row), which includes a description, a plan of the row and its terminal cairn, photographs, and a list of online resources for more information.
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