<< Our Photo Pages >> Higher Town Bay - Stone Row / Alignment in England in Isles of Scilly
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Higher Town BayCountry: England County: Isles of Scilly Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Map Ref: SV93381533
Latitude: 49.959216N Longitude: 6.276676W
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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lucasn visited on 31st Jul 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 3
Located at SV 9330 1530 on Higher Town Beach and partially covered at high tide. Only three stones exist. The Scillies are of course a landscape that was like Dartmoor but which since Bronze Age times has been flooded.
Update October 2019: This single stone row, 15m long, is featured on the Stone Rows of Great Britain website - see their entry for Higher Town Bay, which includes a description and a list of online resources for more information.
The site is scheduled as part of Historic England List Entry No. 1018116 (Prehistoric to Romano-British ritual, funerary and settlement remains on Par Beach, St Martin's), recorded in its own right as Pastscape Monument No. 1180063 and as HER 7660 (PAR BEACH - Neolithic stone alignment, Bronze Age stone alignment) on the Cornwall and Scilly HER.
Pastscape tells us: "(this is) An alignment of three large upright stones, interpreted as a probable stone row. It is located on the foreshore of Par Beach and lies just above the Mean High Water line".
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