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The Tristan Longstone
Standing Stone / Menhir
Making History

Radio 4 programme Making History.

The Tristan Stone – is it the Tristan who loved Isolde?

Listener’s query:

“I live in Fowey, Cornwall, and outside of Fowey there is a monolith with the legend ‘Here lies Tristan son of King Mark’. Is the Tristan on the stone monolith the Tristan of the Tristan and Iseult story?“:

Brief summary:

The Tristan Stone, near Fowey in Cornwall, is a weathered monolith about 9 feet high like a Neolithic standing stone. It might even be a Neolithic stone, but it has a worn inscription on it: Drustans hic iacet Cunomori filius, which means “Here lies Drustanus, the son of Cunomorus”.

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