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From Rhiannon's post - http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/5281

"and a rectangular structure made up of two standing and two recumbent stones."

Does anyone know anything about this?

Thanks

As it happens, I've just returned from a long weekend on Exmoor. Unfortunately, I can't help you with your query.

I visited the Longstone and some of its surrounding barrows and stone settings on Friday with an archaeologist employed by the Exmoor National Park. I didn't see the stone setting described by Rhiannon, although we did see the quincunx and another nearby stone setting - and failed to find some others.

What I can say is this:

There are more than fifty surviving stone settings on Exmoor and many more have been destroyed. Some form various geometrical shapes - some appear to be randomly placed - and are usually formed from small stones which can be very difficult to find in the moorland vegetation. In preparation for my trip I was surprised to find very little information about these settings. There doesn't seem to be any book or website with diagrams of them all. If I lived locally I'd like to do it myself, but as you know, Exmoor isn't very near to Brum.

I was looking at Leslie Grinsell's book on Exmoor over the weekend and he lists all the stone rows, stone circles and other 'stone settings' many of which are supposedly deliberate triangles, rhomboids and suchlike, and there are chapters on the different eras - could be worth getting hold of from somewhere (this one was in the reference library unfortunately)? I'm not sure if it mentioned that place specifically with anym ore details...