<< Our Photo Pages >> Beardown Man - Standing Stone (Menhir) in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Beardown ManCountry: England County: Devon Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Tavistock Nearest Village: Two Bridges
Map Ref: SX59617963 Landranger Map Number: 191
Latitude: 50.599460N Longitude: 3.985073W
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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TheCaptain visited on 20th Sep 2021 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 2 Day down to Dartmoor for a pilgrimmage to Beardown Man. Now at Rough Tor I have now learned (remembered) that when walking on the open moor, any sort of path in roughly the right direction is easier than trying to cross the untamed and boggy moor, so standing on the top of the tor taking in the magnificent vista all around in the sun, decide on a route across to Devil's Tor on a pathway which heads to the south of it to start with, but looks mostly fairly easy going. Then up to the top of the hill, and Beardown Man peeks its top over the horizon and grows taller as I approach. It's not at the top of the hill, just below the summit on the west side, but magnificent, twice my height, a lovely thin flat stone with views from north to south over the deep Cowsic valley on the west side, but nothing to the east, which I think odd. Its fabulous out here.
graemefield visited on 30th Jun 2016 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 2
ChasDrown visited on 1st Jan 1954 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 2
cazzyjane have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4.33 Ambience: 4.67 Access: 2
It is about 3.5 m high and is in an area that appears to be devoid of other prehistoric remains - but I am sure there are a lot there just waiting to be found. I show two views. The one looking SW is to Great Mis Tor which is the position of sunset at the winter solstice.
This standing stone features on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks website - see their entry for the Beardown Man Standing Stone, which tells us this stone measures 3.4m high, 1m by 0.4m in section and in good condition. PDW also gives links to the Devon & Dartmoor HER: MDV4200 (Beardown Man Standing Stone) and the Legendary Dartmoor: Beardown Man web page.
The standing stone is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 439571 and scheduled as Historic England List ID 1008013.
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