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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Butterdon Stone Circle Alternative Name: Butterdon Hill Encircled Cairn
Country: England County: Devon Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Ivybridge Nearest Village: Harford
Map Ref: SX6562958814 Landranger Map Number: 202
Latitude: 50.413783N Longitude: 3.892578W
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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
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-1	Completely destroyed

3 Ambience:

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3	Ordinary
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1	Awful
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3 Access:

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
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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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Catrinm visited on 14th Apr 2024 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 A nice circle with large stones on the path - shame they are recumbent and hard to photograph

SandyG visited on 9th Mar 2013 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 5 Access: 3 Car parking is available at SX 64338 59550.

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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.5 Ambience: 4.5 Access: 3

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**Butterdon Stone Circle** submitted by Bladup : Sunset at Butterdon Stone Circle (and cairn) (Vote or comment on this photo)

The remains of the fantastic Butterdon Hill stone row run for nearly two kilometres across the moor in a roughly northerly direction from Butterdon Hill. The row starts at a cairn, which is situated just downslope to the north of the largest cairn on the hilltop. The cairn is the usual mass of stones with a hollowed out middle, about 8 metres in diameter. However, outside the remains of the cairn lies a ring of large fallen slabs, which once must have made an impressive ring.

Update August 2019: This stone row features on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks website - see their entry for the Butterdon Hill Encircled Cairn.

The Stone Rows of Great Britain also includes an entry for this row, which includes this cairn: Butterdon Hill, which includes photographs, a plan of the row and its associated cairns, plus links to other reference material.

The cairn is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 441240, scheduled as part of Historic England List ID 1012486 (Butterdon Hill stone alignment and cairn), and included on the Devon and Dartmoor HER: MDV2897 (Cairn on Butterdon Hill).
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