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St Breock Downs MenhirStanding Stone / Menhir
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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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| 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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