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St Breock Downs MenhirStanding Stone / Menhir
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Visited 16.4.12 Very easy to spot when making your way to Men Gurta – between the road and the wind turbines. The other side of a barbed wire fence. The field was full of sheep/lambs so I saw little point in climbing over the fence to get closer to the stone. |
Posted by CARL 2nd May 2012ce |
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The St Broeck Down's (or ups) Menhir. I wasn't sure if or how we were supposed to get close and was considering cycling backto the entrance to the wind farm but at the bottom edge there was a gap in the fencing so I left FMJ with the bike and jumped over. Like Men Gurta this stone is scarred thorugh with the distinctive quartz markings. Standing about 7ft high, there is a distinct fissure through the stone. It reminds me a little of the Lynham Barrow Stone in Oxfordshire and I wonder if the angle of it's erection is deliberate or if it's down to subsidence. Both mark the locations of barrows and are at a 10 degree tilt. This is a bigger stone to the monolith at Lynham however and beautfully marked. Wonderful. This post appears as part of the weblog entry Jacksprat's Big Old Tour of Mistakes: Cornwall, June 2007
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Posted by jacksprat18th June 2007ce Edited 14th July 2007ce |
| After viewing the Men Gurta I was dissapointed that I could not get close to this stone. The double row of barbed wire fencing makes it clear that entry to the field is not encouraged! I did think about going in via the gate into the windfarm but it would have then meant a walk down the whole length of the field to reach the stone. There are what looks like a couple of barrows in the field plus one just to the east. This is the eastern end of a row of them that runs past the Nine Maidens and includes around 50 barrows in a seven mile stretch. |
Posted by Mr Hamhead25th February 2007ce |
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St Breock Downs Menhir - 30.3.2003 Marked on the OS map (Explorer 106) as ‘Standing Stone’. Clearly visible in the field on the way up the Men Gurta Menhir. I didn’t actually go up to the stone fro several reasons - it is officially on someone’s land with no public footpaths close by, and there is no easy way into the field which has recently had a new fence. At a quick look the only way I could see was via the field to the East (where the St Breock Wind Farm Barrow is) This post appears as part of the weblog entry Another Kernow Week
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Posted by pure joy6th April 2003ce |
| You cannot miss this on the way to Men Gurta, I was here on a very cold Feb afternoon but couldn't find a way into the field without ripping myself to pieces on barbed wire, will return on warmer times. |
Posted by hamish20th February 2003ce Edited 21st February 2003ce |
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Details of site on Pastscape A granite standing stone on St Breock Downs, surrounded by three round barrows and a bowl barrow. It is roughly rectangular in section and measures approximately 1.7 metres by 0.3 metres at the base, and is approximately 2.3 metres high. The stone stands on a very slight mound. Large cracks in the stone are probably due to frost action. Part of the rock has split off from the top and is wedged where it has dropped into a deep crack. This is a natural break. The standing stone is thought to be of Late Neolithic/ Early Bronze Age date. (SW 97316826) Stone (NR) (1) Granite monolith on St Breock Downs. Roughly rectangular in section and measuring 5ft 6" by 1ft at the base. Approximately 7ft 6" high. The stone stands on a very slight mound. (2) As described; the mound is very shallow, about 0.1m high, and unsurveyable. Published siting correct. (3) The stone is 2.4m high, 1.4m wide and 0.6m thick, and stands on a mound 0.1m high and 6.0m in diameter. Surveyed at 1:2500 on PFD. (4) Scheduled. (5) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE TEXT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date) OS 6" 1963 ( 2) General reference D of E (IAM) MS file 358 ( 3) Field Investigators Comments F1 ANK 06-JAN-72 ( 4) Field Investigators Comments F2 NJA 05-APR-77 ( 5) Scheduled Monument Notification Cornwall |
Posted by Chance10th July 2012ce |
| This is on the right hand side of the road on the way to Men Gurta,just past St.Breock Downs Farm. |
Posted by hamish 21st July 2002ce |
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