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Don't go looking on Louden Hill for this circle..it's to the south of it. The circle lies on a plateau just to the south of the track to Fernacre Fm from Middlemoor Cross. Visiting in August most of the stones are well obscured by the grass..although there are very few to be seen anyway. To be honest it is not worth making the trip just to see this circle...good job Fernacre is just up the track and Stannon just over the hill..oh and Roughtor and Brown Willy looking down on you from above...and all the stuff to hunt for on Loudon Hill..and just the thrill of being out on Bodmin Moor. What more could you want? |
Posted by Mr Hamhead12th September 2006ce |
| The Logan stone here is one of the best I know of, it's easy to spot, looking like a giant smartie sitting on a flat area of the outcrop and rocks easily (you just need to press lightly on the edge to set it going) but feels good and stable as it never rocks too far. A great boulder to sit on and appreciate the view across to Rough Tor while rocking gently. |
Posted by Zedsquared 18th August 2003ce |
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12 jan 2003 Took the route from stannon circle and thought that the Louden circle would appear before us as we reached the crest of the hill.....wrong! The circle would easily be missed if wasn't for the map we had with us. There seems to be about 4 what you could call standing stones (stumps) and the rest are more or less stones on the ground. Had trouble tracing the shape also. Just to confuse things stones seem to stick out of the ground all over the place many are obviously cairns there are also some stone banks that aren't marked on OS maps. Unfortunately didnt have time to travel down to Fernacre which would have been an circle within easy reach if we had time (maybe another day) |
Posted by phil 12th January 2003ce Edited 12th January 2003ce |
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Louden Hill Stone Circle - 26.12.2002 After finally finding this it then made me realise how pathetic my 'possible circle remains' looked (see the sub-site I've called 'Louden Hill 2??'). Although this is regarded as a pretty minor circle (it is only mentioned in passing by Aubrey Burl in his 'Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany' (1995) and was not apparently discovered until 1973) at least it is clearly a fallen circle. I counted 31 stones, including one double stone and several only just poking through the moor land, but not including probable overgrown stones (humps in the ground), nor possible stones just inside/outside the circle. This is rather strange because Craig Weatherhill counted 16/17 stone in all (see 'Cornovia: Ancient Sites of Cornwall and Scilly' - Cornwall Books - 1985, revised 1997 & 2000). Several other stones seem to be scattered outside especially to the East and North East. |
Posted by pure joy11th January 2003ce |
| Bollocks! Missed this one! Though I probably ran right past it to check out the Logan Stone here (like a magalithic surfboard left by some forgetful deity) and to see if I could spy Stannon. |
Posted by thebaz 14th July 2002ce |
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Today there are only 4 stumps, eleven or twelve fallen stones and on upright originally 1.43 metres high but now leaning. Many stones have been removed the original total was said to be about 33-39. The diameter was said to be at one time 45m making it one of the biggest in Cornwall |
Posted by phil 8th December 2001ce |
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I have to agree with Pure Joy, I couldn't work out which stones were part of the circle and which were just "stones". Not having read up on the area before the walk I was not sure if the circle was large, small, standing, recumbent........ So, did I walk through the circle or not, was it the large one just off the track or the smaller one further down the hill where there are cairns marked on the OS map but look more like a small circle of stones. I will have to do some research next time. It was worth the walk just to rock the stone on Louden Hill whilst a rainbow arced over Roughtor. |
Posted by Mr Hamhead 1st December 2003ce |
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Posted by pure joy 1st March 2003ce |
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Louden Hill Stone Circle 2 ?? - 26.12.2002 Whilst coming across the moor from Stannon Stone Circle back to the track that runs past the Louden Hill and Fernacre Stone Circles I got a bit lost finding Louden Hill Stone Circle. I knew that Louden Hill Stone Circle was a ruined circle but I didn't know how many stones were supposed to remain, and didn't know exactly what to look for. So when I came across 5 stones that looked like almost a quarter of quite a substantial circle, plus a few other stones, I presumed it was the Louden Hill Stone Circle. But then I realise that (a) this was not much of a circle even for a ruined circle, and (b) I was only about 300 metres from the end of the Camperdown Farm walls and was probably at about SX128793 (i.e. about 300 metres West of the real Louden Hill Stone Circle). So is this possibly another circle? Or just some stones that happen to form a part of a circle? There are 5 stones, all recumbent. 2 large, 1 small, 1 overgrown and 1 just a tiny speck poking through. There is also another tiny speck poking through but that is a little off line. Towards what could have been the middle of a circle are two medium sized stones, plus an overgrown stone about 5 metres ENE of them. This is all about 30 metres to the South of the track. About 50 metres to the East there are several stones scattered on the South side of the track, and a lone stone to the North of the track. I later discovered the real Louden Hill Stone Circle but this area still has me intrigued. |
Posted by pure joy 11th January 2003ce |
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