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Logan Stone Image © Martin Bull Nearest Town: Hallworthy (8km NNE) OS Ref (GB):     SX145808 / Sheet: 200 Latitude: 50° 35' 48.42" N Longitude:     4° 37' 16.95" W Added by phil Images (2) Fieldnotes (1) Folklore (1) Links (1) 0 discussions Start a topic Show  |  Hide Web searches for Logan Stone Flash Earth Flickr Google Google Images MAGIC The Megalithic Portal Bing Stone Pages Streetmap.co.uk Wikipedia

- Sites within 20 km - - Rough Tor (0.14km NE) (16 posts) Showery Tor Embanked Avenue (0.54km NNE) (2 posts) Showery Tor (0.64km NE) (16 posts) Louden (0.71km SW) (3 posts) Fernacre (0.9km SSE) (23 posts) Roughtor Slopes Cairn (1.08km NW) (2 posts) Showery Tor Downs Cairn (1.12km NNE) (3 posts) Louden Hill (1.3km SSW) (4 posts) Showery Tor Downs Menhir (1.3km NNE) (2 posts) High Moor Fogou (1.67km ENE) (3 posts) Brown Willy Cairns (1.72km ESE) (9 posts) Louden Stone Circle (1.83km SW) (14 posts) High Moor cairns (1.84km ENE) (4 posts) Stannon (2.05km WSW) (42 posts) Louden Hill 2?? (2.26km SW) (3 posts) Brown Willy Settlement (2.27km ESE) (2 posts) Garrow Tor settlements (2.3km SSE) (3 posts) Crowdy Reservoir Barrow (2.57km NW) (2 posts) Advent Triple Barrow (2.84km NW) (2 posts) Oldpark Menhir (2.89km NE) (2 posts) Catshole Downs (2.97km ESE) (1 post) Catshole Tor Settlement (3.03km ESE) (8 posts) Buttern Hill (3.12km ENE) (8 posts) Catshole Tor Cairns (3.39km ESE) (2 posts) Leaze Menhir (3.39km S) (4 posts) Moorgate Menhir (3.41km W) (12 posts) Casehill Cairn (3.46km SSW) (4 posts) King Arthur's Hall (3.48km SSW) (39 posts) Catshole Tor Quoit (3.54km ESE) (3 posts) King Arthur's Downs (3.57km SSW) (12 posts) Leaze (3.59km S) (19 posts) Summit Cairn (3.83km E) (3 posts) The Leskernick ‘Quoit’ (3.83km E) (10 posts) Leskernick Cist (3.96km E) (4 posts) Leaze Cist (4.01km SSW) (3 posts) Catshole Downs (4.13km ESE) (6 posts) Tolborough Tor Cairn (4.16km ESE) (7 posts) Leskernick North Circle (4.18km E) (6 posts) Tolborough Tor Stone Row (4.23km ESE) (2 posts) Leskernick Stone Row (4.28km E) (6 posts) Leskernick Cairn (4.3km E) (3 posts) Small cairn (4.38km ESE) (2 posts) Leskernick South Circle (4.45km E) (13 posts) Tolborough Downs (4.54km ESE) (1 post) Bray Down (4.63km ENE) (7 posts) The Beacon (4.64km E) (1 post) Trezelland Two Stones (4.69km E) (2 posts) Tolborough Tor Menhir (4.81km ESE) (4 posts) The Beacon - possible barrow cemetery (5.3km E) (3 posts) The Beacon (5.34km E) (2 posts) The Beacon Cairns (5.39km E) (1 post) Stripple Stones (5.5km S) (6 posts) Starapark Barrows (5.74km NW) (8 posts) Westmoorgate Stone Circle (5.78km ENE) (5 posts) Northern Cairn (5.79km SE) (0 posts) Trippet Stones (5.96km S) (51 posts) Delford Bridge Menhir (5.98km SSW) (11 posts) Brockabarrow Common (5.98km SE) (1 post) Slaughter Bridge Stone (6.07km WNW) (6 posts) East Flank Settlement (6.26km SE) (0 posts) Carneglos Stone Row (6.28km E) (2 posts) West Flank Settlement (6.29km SSE) (0 posts) Helsbury Castle (6.29km WSW) (6 posts) Southern Cairn (6.3km SE) (0 posts) Castle Goff (6.53km W) (1 post) Manor Common (6.67km S) (1 post) Spettigue Menhir (6.9km E) (1 post) Colquite Cairn (6.97km SE) (4 posts) Black Tor Cairns (7.29km SSE) (6 posts) Tich Barrow (7.3km NNW) (2 posts) Hendraburnick Quoit (7.5km NNW) (7 posts) Black Tor (7.6km SSE) (4 posts) East Moor Menhirs (western area) (7.71km E) (6 posts) Smith's Cairn (7.88km ESE) (2 posts) Trehudreth and Greenbarrow Downs (7.9km S) (2 posts) Greenbarrow Downs Cairns (7.92km S) (2 posts) Dozmary Pool (7.96km ESE) (12 posts) Trehudreth Downs Stone Row (7.97km S) (5 posts) Greenbarrow (8.03km S) (3 posts) Trehudreth Downs Stone Setting (8.12km S) (3 posts) East Moor Menhir (8.13km E) (2 posts) Tregune Menhir (8.17km E) (2 posts) Trehudreth Downs Cairn (8.19km S) (1 post) Trehudreth Downs Menhir (8.26km S) (1 post) East Moor Enclosure (8.33km E) (4 posts) Trehudreth Downs Cairn (8.33km S) (1 post) Trehudreth Downs Stone Setting / Row (8.33km S) (3 posts) East Moor Stone Row (8.39km E) (11 posts) Condolden Barrow (8.42km WNW) (5 posts) East Moor Ring Cairn (8.42km E) (4 posts) Tregune Menhir No2 (8.42km E) (2 posts) Trehudreth Downs Menhir (markstone?) (8.43km S) (2 posts) East Moor Cairn (8.49km E) (3 posts) Goodaver Stone Circle (8.55km ESE) (13 posts) Fox Tor Stone Row (8.75km E) (2 posts) Colvannick Tor Stone Row (9.05km S) (17 posts) Colquite Menhir (9.14km E) (2 posts) Carey Tor (9.33km E) (8 posts) Cardinham Moor (9.34km S) (5 posts) Nine Stones of Altarnun (9.36km E) (17 posts) Rushyford Gate (9.47km E) (3 posts) Brown Gelly Cairns (9.55km ESE) (11 posts) Clitters Cairn (9.98km E) (9 posts) Carburrow Quoit (10.04km SSE) (3 posts) Carburrow Tor (10.04km SSE) (8 posts) Bunnings Park Earthworks (10.05km ESE) (4 posts) Corner Quoit (10.17km S) (2 posts) Bowda Stone Circle (10.68km E) (4 posts) Letter Moor (10.78km SE) (4 posts) Arthur's Bed (10.8km E) (6 posts) King Arthur's Quoit (11.02km WNW) (4 posts) Rocky Valley Rock Carvings (11.11km WNW) (15 posts) Bury Castle (11.13km S) (7 posts) Trewortha Tor (11.14km E) (2 posts) Bossiney Mound (11.14km WNW) (3 posts) Tregeare Rounds (11.19km WSW) (2 posts) Treligga Common (11.19km W) (9 posts) Longstone (St Mabyn) (11.21km SW) (1 post) Trebinnick Mound (11.43km SE) (4 posts) Council Barrow (11.45km SSW) (3 posts) Warbstow Bury (11.49km NNE) (9 posts) Newel Tor hut circles (11.63km ESE) (2 posts) Hawks Tor Wall (11.66km E) (5 posts) Trewortha Cairn and Cist (11.66km E) (4 posts) Willabury (Boscastle) (11.7km NW) (3 posts) Allabury (11.82km E) (2 posts) Sibleyback Menhir (11.85km ESE) (6 posts) Twelve Men's Moor (11.9km E) (2 posts) Twelve Men's cairn (11.9km E) (5 posts) Tregeare Camp (11.92km ENE) (1 post) Kilmar Quoit (11.96km E) (3 posts) Pyramid Stone (11.99km E) (3 posts) Willabury (Tintagel) (12.07km WNW) (3 posts) St. Materiana Church Yard (12.12km WNW) (5 posts) Draynes Common Cairns (12.26km ESE) (2 posts) Langstone Down Menhir (12.46km E) (1 post) Mutton Down Menhir (12.5km SE) (5 posts) Bearah Tramway cairn (12.65km E) (4 posts) Tintagel (12.66km WNW) (14 posts) Craddock Moor Stone Row (12.78km ESE) (6 posts) Berry Castle (12.97km SE) (4 posts) Langstone Downs Cairns (13.05km E) (4 posts) Craddock Moor Embanked Avenue (13.15km ESE) (4 posts) Craddock Moor Stone Setting (13.31km ESE) (4 posts) Sharptor field system (13.33km E) (2 posts) Settlement West of St Neot (13.36km SSE) (1 post) Bearah Common (13.38km E) (14 posts) Crowpound Menhir (13.42km SE) (4 posts) Crowpound (13.42km SE) (4 posts) Tregarrick Tor Menhir (13.47km ESE) (4 posts) Tregarrick Tumuli (13.62km ESE) (3 posts) The Craddock Moor Circle (13.72km ESE) (16 posts) Penhargard Castle (13.92km SW) (2 posts) Stowes Pound (13.98km ESE) (28 posts) The Cheesewring (14.04km ESE) (37 posts) Daniel Gumb's house (14.04km ESE) (5 posts) Trewalla Cairns (14.27km ESE) (3 posts) Headon Barrow (14.37km NNE) (2 posts) Kelly Rounds (14.47km WSW) (1 post) Walla Barrow (14.47km ESE) (1 post) Rillaton Barrow (14.5km ESE) (24 posts) Killibury Castle (14.56km WSW) (3 posts) The Pipers (14.58km ESE) (18 posts) The Hurlers (14.66km ESE) (117 posts) Minions Mound (14.94km ESE) (3 posts) Pencarrow Rings (15.03km SW) (6 posts) Long Tom (15.1km ESE) (16 posts) Castle Canyke (16.1km SSW) (4 posts) Largin Castle (16.36km SSE) (1 post) Trethevy Quoit (16.51km ESE) (86 posts) Taphouse Barrows (17.48km SSE) (1 post) Ashbury Hillfort (18.62km NNE) (1 post) Lesquite Quoit (19.44km SSW) (15 posts) - Facilities within 20 km - - Masons Arms (Pub, Rest... (Pub: 4.8 km WNW) The Colliford Tavern (Pub: 7.3 km SSE) The Blisland Inn (Pub: 8.8 km SSW) Boscastle Youth Hostel (Youth Hostel: 11.5 km NW) Museum of Witchcraft (Museum: 11.5 km NW) Tintagel (Youth Hostel: 12.3 km WNW) Trenannick Cottages (Holiday Cottage: 12.5 km NNE) Boturnell Farm Cottages (Holiday Cottage: 20 km SSE)

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If you're up here, find it. It's strange, weathered boulder with a depression and notch eroded/carved? Right at the top of the northern peak of Rough Tor, just along from the war memorial plaque with the dragon on it. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Hob 7th October 2003ce Edited 19th October 2003ce

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How to Become a Witch Touch a Logan stone nine times at midnight, and any woman will become a witch. Source: Robert Hunt, Popular Romances of the West of England; or, The Drolls, Traditions, and Superstitions of Old Cornwall (London: John Camden Hotten, 1871), p. 321. http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/monuments.html#scott Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by fitzcoraldo 28th March 2006ce

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Places of Pilgrimage Piccy of Rough Tor Logan stone. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by phil 28th February 2002ce