<< Text Pages >> Soussons Down Stone Row - Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Soussons Down Stone Row Alternative Name: Red Barrows; Butler (V3 24.2)Country: England County: Devon Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Nearest Town: Princetown Nearest Village: Postbridge / Bellever
Map Ref: SX6767079980 Landranger Map Number: 191
Latitude: 50.604491N Longitude: 3.871376W
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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graemefield visited on 30th Jun 2012 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 5 The central cist has now had its earth removed after what looks like more fire damage.
Update November 2019: Information about this now destroyed alignment comes from the Stone Rows of Great Britain website - see their entry for the Soussons Down.
The SRoGB tells us this was a triple stone row which measured 62m long which was first described in 1898. The row was subsequently destroyed by afforestation in 1946. The cairn at its upper northern end still survives.
The cairn is recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 1234904, as MV6015 (Cairn in the Parish of Manaton) and is scheduled as Historic England List ID 1018790(Round cairn on Soussons Down, 1.2km north west of Soussons).
The row is also featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entries for the Soussons Down (Red Barrows) Stone Row and the Soussons Cairn Circle, which adds: "The row was associated with a cairn about 300m north of the four Red Barrow cairn group".
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1.3km S 186° Soussons Common* Stone Circle (SX6751178692)
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1.7km N 10° Bennet's Cross* Ancient Cross (SX68008162)
2.0km NNE 30° Birch Tor Cairn* Cairn (SX6868681654)
2.0km S 186° Cator Common Cairn Circle* Cairn (SX6742678001)
2.3km NNE 19° Bush Down Settlement* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX6849282173)
2.4km S 187° Cater Common settlement* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX673776)
2.4km WNW 294° Stannon Newtake cist* Cist (SX65468105)
2.5km SSW 192° Cator Common Platform Cairn and Cist Cairn (SX67107751)
2.6km N 350° Hurston Ridge* Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue (SX67308251)
2.6km ENE 68° Grimspound* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX70078090)
2.6km N 351° Hurston Ridge Settlement* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX67338253)
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2.6km ENE 58° Hookney Tor Cairn* Cairn (SX6990281310)
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2.7km ENE 76° Hamel Down Platform Cairn (North)* Cairn (SX70318057)
2.7km NE 39° Shapley Common* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX69428206)
2.7km E 86° Hamel Down Cross* Ancient Cross (SX70428011)
2.8km WNW 303° White Ridge stone row* Stone Row / Alignment (SX65408156)
2.8km N 357° Chagford Common Cairn* Cairn (SX6757182800)
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