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Porlock Common Stone Circle, Exmoor, Somerset.
Visited Sunday, 24th September 2006.
SS8451 4467, Alt 407m, Access 5, Ambience 4, Condition 2
Drive south along the Exford road from Whitstone Post junction, and after a couple of kilometres there is a place to park by the little bridge just south of the gated entrance to the sheepfold beside the stone circle. The circle is easily found just inside the field to the west of the road, and just north of the sheepfold.
The diameter is about 25 metres and somebody has made a little stone box full of tat in the middle. A geocache ? I counted 16 stones, but many of these are just loose stones placed on the surface. There are at least three (relatively) large stones still in place, the largest being just under 2 metres in length, but laying flat on the ground. Most of the stones are tiny, but several do obviously stand proud of the ground and are well fixed.
The circle is not in a very prominent position, and the views are not far in any direction, it being in a sort of hollow not far from a stream.
Just uphill to the north is another little standing stone, and the remains of a cairn. It looks possible that there was once more stones here. Is this the remains of another little row associated with the circle ?
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