Nine
Stones
Stone Circle
SX 236 781
Take a right turn off the A30 just after the turn to Altarnum heading towards Exeter and follow the B3257 for about ½ mile. Turn right to Trevadlock and stay on this lane to a crossroads where you turn right. Follow this for about a mile and when you come to open moorland, just after a cattlegrid, stop before you come to a wall on the right and a track to a farm on the left. Park on the verge and head NW uphill near an old cross. When you come over the top of the hill the circle is ahead in an area of clear ground in the valley floor. There are several hut circles amongst the gorse bushes on the way.
This is an attractive circle in a very peaceful location. This is a perfect circle of eight stones and is the smallest circle on Bodmin Moor at 15 metres diameter.
View of the centre stone
There is a ninth stone near the centre and they are all granite. The tallest stone is about 1.2m (4 feet) high and is located in the NW and there is a gap to the north where a stone was once located.
Some of the stones are starting to lean as hollows formed by grazing cattle are getting deeper as they get eroded away.
Erosion problems
Easter
2002
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