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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Warcombe Water row Alternative Name: Warcombe Water, WestCountry: England County: Devon Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Lynton
Map Ref: SS72864424
Latitude: 51.183209N Longitude: 3.820462W
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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SandyG visited on 20th Apr 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Limited car parking is available at SS 71410 44956 at Shallowford. From here head east along the path to SS 71818 44908 at which point turn south and follow the track to SS 72602 43860. Leave the track and head north east to the row. For some reason the area around the row was at the time of the fieldwork particularly infested with ticks. Take care.
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The site, which had not been recognised before, is classified as a ‘stone row’ – a monument class found across Britain, Ireland and Brittany. In the South West, monuments like this tend to be restricted to the moors, with a particular concentration on Dartmoor. On Exmoor there are around eight examples all of which are considered to be of national importance.
The row comprises of nine upright and three prone stones which form a single row 99m long. The stones are all of pale yellow/grey sandstone, local to the area. Two further stones, a prone quartz block and an edge-set slab are on the same alignment some 43m and 27m to the north-west.
Stone rows date from the Late Neolithic and early Bronze Age (around 4500-3500 years ago) and are often found in association with other monuments such as stone circles or burial cairns. The Warcombe Water Stone Row appears not to have such associations, although a prehistoric settlement has been previously recognised nearby and a burial cairn lies about 100 metres away. A programme of fieldwork in collaboration with English Heritage was carried out during 2007 and a report published by English Heritage: 44/2007 Lithic Monuments on Exmoor: Some New Discoveries - The Warcombe Water Stone Row and a Stone Setting on Trout Hill by Hazel Riley
The location given is for the centre of the stone row.
Update August 2019: This stone row is featured on the Stone Rows of Great Britain website - see their entry for Warcombe Water, West, which includes a description, a simplified plan of the row, a photograph and access information. The SRoGB entry also gives a link to an English Heritage report: "The Warcombe Water Stone Row and a Stone Setting on Trout Hill" by Hazel Riley.
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