Woodybay Wedge

Weight
119kg / 257lbs

Location
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The Challenge
Stone to chest

Stone Placement
Placed by @b.blackmore10. Stone tumbled from the bank and laid to one side of a public footpath, 300m from the road with a layby to park in. Alternative car parks approx. 300m away.

History
The stone sits on Devon’s North Coast, within the ancient territory of the Dumnonii, an Iron Age Brittonic Celtic people whose lands covered modern Devon and Cornwall (c. 800 BC – AD 410). 

Long before named tribes, prehistoric communities of the Neolithic and Bronze Age (c. 4000 BC – 800 BC) crossed and shaped Exmoor, raising barrows and field boundaries that still mark the high ground.

After the Roman withdrawal (c. AD 410), this landscape became part of the Kingdom of Dumnonia (c. AD 410 – 900), a rugged Brittonic realm of hills, moors, and sea routes. 

While much of eastern Britain came under Anglo-Saxon control, Dumnonia remained culturally distinct, preserving Celtic language, customs, and maritime links to Wales, Ireland, and Brittany for centuries before its gradual absorption into Wessex.