Overview
Standing stone, Scorhill Down is shown and named in a reusable Geograph picture. The saved point is the picture's recorded map point.
Who made it and when
The saved record identifies Standing stone, Scorhill Down as Ancient stone or rock art. It does not safely name its makers or a precise construction date. The saved detailed account records: Standing stone, Scorhill Down is shown and named in a reusable Geograph picture. The saved point is the picture's recorded map point.
How it was made and used
Its classification points to ritual, marking, defence or gathering. The saved wording does not establish the full building method, ceremonies or length of use, so those details remain open.
What was found
No safe list of excavated objects, bones, carvings or dates is supplied by the short saved record. Finds are not invented from the place type or local name.
What remains
The public record still maps Standing stone, Scorhill Down as Ancient stone or rock art. The point may mark standing remains, earthworks, a buried site or the centre of a wider area, and this first account keeps that difference visible.
Why it mattered
The place preserves physical evidence or local memory connected with ancient stone or rock art. Its source and exact position give later research a firm starting point without turning uncertain tradition into fact.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
Places near here
- Stone hut circle 210m east of Scorhill stone circlemonument0.1 miles
- Two round cairns 400m north west of Scorhill Farmmonument0.2 miles
- Scorhill Tormountain0.2 miles
- Scorhill Stone Circleattraction0.2 miles
- The Scorhill Stone Circlemonument0.2 miles
- Scorhill stone circle, three cairns and a length of reavemonument0.2 miles
- Tolmenmonument0.3 miles
- Teign-e-ver Clapper Bridgebuilding0.3 miles
- North Creaber Farmhousebuilding0.3 miles
- Wallabrook Bridgebuilding0.4 miles
- Clapper bridge near Scorhill Stone circlemonument0.4 miles
- Ice grotto, Creabercave0.4 miles
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