Trehudreth Downs Stone Setting

Nearest town:
Bodmin (7km SW)
OS reference:
SX126729
OS sheet:
200
Latitude:
50° 31' 30.79 N
Longitude:
4° 38' 39.18 W
Added to TMA by

Images

Image of Trehudreth Downs Stone Setting by pure joy

Trehundreth Downs Stone Setting – 31.3.2004. With Rough Tor (left) and Brown Willy (right) in the background

Image credit: Martin Bull
pure joy
pure joy May 5, 2004

Articles

Trehudreth Downs Stone Setting

Mr Hamhead
Mr Hamhead May 26, 2005

Set slightly higher up the hill from the stone rows, this is the biggest upright on the downs. The higher upright (of the group of three) can be seen on the ridge to the SE.

The reason why it is hard to find the settings on the downs is partly because of the gorse bushes. Although they do not cover the area they do have a habit of hiding things when looking from one point to another.

Trehudreth Downs Stone Setting

pure joy
pure joy Apr 7, 2004

Trehundreth Downs Stone Setting – 31.3.2004

Full 8 figure grid ref = SX12587292

I found this from the Trehundreth Downs Stone Row. There is a good picture of this in Peter Herring and Peter Rose’s ‘Bodmin Moor’s Archaeological Heritage’ (Cornwall County Council – 2001). This excellent book writes “next to a cairn on Trehundreth Downs is a setting of three uprights in an arc, as if to define a forecourt-like area where rites could be performed against hills under the great expanse of the upland sky”. Although their description is a bit strange to what is on the ground and their interpretation surprisingly flowery compared to the rest of the book, it proved very useful to help me find this.

Sites within 20km of Trehudreth Downs Stone Setting

Like all websites everywhere, we use cookies.