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Dartmoor Site: Fernworthy Stone Circle

Fernworthy Stone Circle

Fernworthy Stone Circle

Photo taken on 25-07-2015

Database entries

PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Fernworthy Stone Circle
OS Map: SX 65486 84126
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV6534
Megalithic Portal: 530
PMD: Fernworthy Stone Circle
Alternate name: Fernworthy
Short Name: SC Fernworth
Turner: G13
DPD page: 138
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Cairn Class: No
Dimensions (m): 19.3
Lidar: SX 65486 84126
Nearby sites: SX 65486 84126

Notes

The Fernworthy circle is part of a group of ceremonial monuments including 3 stone rows and 5 cairns that may once have rivalled Merrivale and Shovel Down as ceremonial centres. The site is in a small clearing in Fernworthy Forrest off the path to Teignhead Farm. The circle is remarkably intact with all but 2 stones still in their original places ... It is 20m in diameter and consists of 27 small stones. The stone rows and cairns probably came later and surround the site. The circle was excavated by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee in 1897. They found that the interior of the circle was covered in a layer of charcoal suggesting that it had been the scene of very many fires - perhaps funeral pyres or feasts. See also Legendary Dartmoor: Dartmoor's Fernworthy Stone. DNP Post 3D.

References

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