Whitcott Keysett

Nearest town:
Bishop's Castle (7km NE)
OS reference:
SO277823
OS sheet:
137
Latitude:
52° 26' 0.4 N
Longitude:
3° 3' 48.89 W
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Image of Whitcott Keysett (Standing Stone / Menhir) by thesweetcheat

The ploughed-down barrow at SO 28369 82022, just about visible with a determined eye. Looking ESE towards Clun. Although the barrow itself is barely there, the setting is decent and another example of Bronze Age sites next to watercourses.

Image credit: A. Brookes (24.11.2016)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Dec 5, 2016
Image of Whitcott Keysett (Standing Stone / Menhir) by thesweetcheat

The location of the ploughed-down bowl barrow at SO 28369 82022, looking WNW along the Clun valley.

Image credit: A. Brookes (24.11.2016)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Dec 5, 2016

Articles

Whitcott Keysett

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Reg Feb 5, 2003

3rd February 2003

We had quite a time trying to find this stone, mainly because we were looking for a “Standing” Stone – and this is a very “Horizontal” Stone, the snow on the ground and blowing in to our faces didn’t help either and stopped us taking photos.

The stone lays in a meadow close to the River Clun (it’s quite close to the road but there is no public access). It is about 3Metres long and 1.5 – 2 Metres wide (difficult to tell the other dimension as most of the it is below ground) sadly it is broken in to a number of peices, it’s still impressive though – very large for this area.

Miscellaneous

Whitcott Keysett
Standing Stone / Menhir
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Dec 5, 2016

Three fields away to the southeast at SO 28369 82022, on the same side of the river, the Shropshire SMR lists a bowl barrow:

The monument includes a bowl barrow situated on a low rise north of the River Clun. Although much reduced by past ploughing, it survives as a low mound 25m north to south by 20m transversely standing up to 0.3m high. Although no longer visible as a surface feature, a ditch, from which the material was quarried for the construction of the barrow, surrounds the mound and has an estimated width of 2m.

Miscellaneous

Whitcott Keysett
Standing Stone / Menhir
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Nov 26, 2016

At a distance of somewhat more than a mile from Clun, in a field to the right, near the hamlet of Whitcott Keysett, stands one of those extraordinary stones which are usually classed under the title of Druldical monuments. It is a flat, broad stone, of very irregular shape, placed upright in the ground, in which it is evidently inserted to a considerable depth. Above ground it measures eight feet three inches in height by seven feet broad.

From ‘Wanderings of an Antiquary’ by Thomas Wright, 1854. (It’s curious that I added this site to the database myself, a million years ago – it must have a bit of folklore to go with it?).

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