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Standing stone 700m south east of North Barn Farm

A Scheduled Monument in Long Bredy, Dorset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.7215 / 50°43'17"N

Longitude: -2.6069 / 2°36'25"W

OS Eastings: 357250.365381

OS Northings: 91489.6348

OS Grid: SY572914

Mapcode National: GBR PT.33Z0

Mapcode Global: FRA 57F5.G6G

Entry Name: Standing stone 700m south east of North Barn Farm

Scheduled Date: 15 October 1924

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1002689

English Heritage Legacy ID: DO 39

County: Dorset

Civil Parish: Long Bredy

Traditional County: Dorset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset

Church of England Parish: Long Bredy St Peter

Church of England Diocese: Salisbury

Details

The monument includes a standing stone, situated on the lower southern slopes of a prominent hill in a dry valley. The standing stone survives as a single upright, earthfast triangular block of Sarsen stone which measures approximately 2.2m high, 2.7m long at the base and 0.5m thick. The stone leans slightly to the south.
Further archaeological remains survive in the vicinity and are the subject of separate schedulings.

Sources: HER:-
PastScape Monument No:-451057

Source: Historic England

Reasons for Scheduling

Standing stones are prehistoric ritual or ceremonial monuments with dates ranging from the Late Neolithic to the end of the Bronze Age for the few excavated examples. They comprise single or paired upright orthostatic slabs, ranging from under lm to over 6m high where still erect. They are often conspicuously sited and close to other contemporary monument classes. They can be accompanied by various features: many occur in or on the edge of round barrows, and where excavated, associated subsurface features have included stone cists, stone settings, and various pits and hollows filled in with earth containing human bone, cremations, charcoal, flints, pots and pot sherds. Similar deposits have been found in excavated sockets for standing stones, which range considerably in depth. Several standing stones also bear cup and ring marks. Standing stones may have functioned as markers for routeways, territories, graves, or meeting points, but their accompanying features show they also bore a ritual function and that they form one of several ritual monument classes of their period that often contain a deposit of cremation and domestic debris as an integral component. No national survey of standing stones has been undertaken, and estimates range from 50 to 250 extant examples, widely distributed throughout England but with concentrations in Cornwall, the North Yorkshire Moors, Cumbria, Derbyshire and the Cotswolds. Standing stones are important as nationally rare monuments, with a high longevity and demonstrating the diversity of ritual practices in the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age. The standing stone 700m south east of North Barn Farm survives well and will retain archaeological and environmental evidence relating to its erection, longevity, function, territorial significance, ceremonial, ritual and possible funerary significance and overall landscape context.

Source: Historic England

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