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<< Our Photo Pages >> Buttern Hill row - Stone Row / Alignment in England in Cornwall

Submitted by TheCaptain on Tuesday, 16 January 2018  Page Views: 12894

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Buttern Hill row
Country: England County: Cornwall Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Camelford  Nearest Village: St Clether
Map Ref: SX1695681658  Landranger Map Number: 201
Latitude: 50.605855N  Longitude: 4.588196W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 2 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
 5

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SandyG visited on 25th May 2017 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Car parking is available at SX 18347 82645. Take the track leading south and follow to SX 17898 82272. From here walk around the northern slope of Buttern Hill to the row.

Buttern Hill row
Buttern Hill row submitted by SandyG : Looking north along the northern length of the row (Scale 1m). (Vote or comment on this photo)
Almost 80 metre long stone row on the slopes of Buttern Hill, near to the source of the river Fowey in the midst of northern Bodmin Moor.

The row runs in a NNE to SSW alignment, from SX16938158 to SX16958165. The stones are on average less than half a metre tall, are spaced at about 3.5 metres from each other.

Update October 2019: This stone row is featured on the Stone Rows of Great Britain website - see their entry for Buttern Hill, which includes a description, photographs of the alignment and the individual stones, plans of the row from a recent survey in May 2017, access information, links to other online resources for more information.

The SRoGB also includes a section for 'A Landscape Reveal' which discusses and illustrates visual relationships with prominent features which appear, then disappear, in the landscape as you walk along the row.

The row is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 434362 and as MDV3537 (Buttern Hill (Neolithic Stone Alignment) on the Cornwall and Scilly HER.

Note: Photos and details of this little known and elusive Cornish stone row now with us, thanks to SandyG
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Buttern Hill row
Buttern Hill row submitted by SandyG : Simplified plan of the Buttern Hill stone alignment (Source: Johnson, N. and Rose, P., 1994, 32 and fieldwork). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Buttern Hill row
Buttern Hill row submitted by SandyG : View from above and south. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Buttern Hill row
Buttern Hill row submitted by SandyG : Looking north along the northern length of the row (Scale 1m). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Buttern Hill row
Buttern Hill row submitted by SandyG : View of the northern length from the west (Scale 1m). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Buttern Hill row
Buttern Hill row submitted by SandyG : View of the northern length from the south west (Scale 1m).

Buttern Hill row
Buttern Hill row submitted by SandyG : View from the south east. The stones along this length seem to protrude from a slight bank. This could be seen to indicate that this site is the remains of an historic field boundary. Other lengths of the row however are not associated with this bank which may represent a path that has developed on the upside of the stones. The absence of any other boundaries in the area very strongly suggest that...

Buttern Hill row
Buttern Hill row submitted by SandyG : Stone 13 measures 1.03m long, 0.48m wide and up to 0.93m high. View from south (Scale 1m).

Buttern Hill row
Buttern Hill row submitted by SandyG : Stone 11 measures 0.67m long, 0.63m wide and up to 0.16m high. View from south (Scale 1m).

Buttern Hill row
Buttern Hill row submitted by SandyG : Stone 10 measures 1.13m long, 1.13m wide and up to 0.31m high. View from south (Scale 1m).

Buttern Hill row
Buttern Hill row submitted by SandyG : Stone 9 measures 1.26m long, 0.90m wide and up to 0.36m high. View from south (Scale 1m).

Buttern Hill row
Buttern Hill row submitted by SandyG : Stone 8 is largely buried. Only the top protrudes through the turf. View from north (Scale 1m).

Buttern Hill row
Buttern Hill row submitted by SandyG : Stone 7 measures 1.15m long, 0.39m wide and up to 0.40m high. View from west (Scale 1m).

Buttern Hill row
Buttern Hill row submitted by SandyG : Stone 6 is largely buried. Only the top protrudes through the turf. View from south (Scale 1m).

Buttern Hill row
Buttern Hill row submitted by SandyG : Stone 5 measures 1.05m long, 0.47m wide and up to 0.40m high. View from north with the remainder of the row beyond (Scale 1m).

Buttern Hill row
Buttern Hill row submitted by SandyG : Stone 4 measures 1.70m long, 1m wide and up to 0.21m high. View from north with Stone 3 in foreground and the remainder of the row beyond (Scale 1m).

Buttern Hill row
Buttern Hill row submitted by SandyG : Stone 3 measures 0.59m long, 0.47m wide and up to 0.55m high. View from east with Stone 4 to the left and Stone 2 to the right (Scale 1m).

Buttern Hill row
Buttern Hill row submitted by SandyG : Stone 2 measures 0.98m long, 0.48m wide and up to 0.12m high. View from south with Stone 1 beyond (Scale 1m).

Buttern Hill row
Buttern Hill row submitted by SandyG : Stone 1 measures 1.95m long, 0.44m wide and up to 0.84m high. View from east (Scale 1m).

Buttern Hill row
Buttern Hill row submitted by SandyG : The northern length of the row. View from the south east (Scale 1m).

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 2.3km WSW 254° Roughtor well* Holy Well or Sacred Spring (SX14678111)
 2.4km WSW 249° Little Roughtor propped stone* Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature (SX1472580887)
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Re: Buttern Hill row by dooclay on Thursday, 23 March 2023
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Summary : A 21-stone row which lies to the west of Leskernick Hill and is oriented ENE-WSW; the propped stone on Leskernick Hill comes into view suddenly from the south terminal stone. The Cornwall HER Map gives this summary (above) at this location but the Leskernick Hill name at least is inaccurate?
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    Re: Buttern Hill row by TheCaptain on Thursday, 23 March 2023
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    Presumably that should be "lies to the west of Buttern Hill", but its possible that the "propped stone on Leskernick Hill comes into view suddenly from the south terminal stone" part is correct.
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