Boscawen-Ros

Nearest town:
Newlyn (6km NE)
OS reference:
SW428239
OS sheet:
203
Latitude:
50° 3' 31.89 N
Longitude:
5° 35' 38.28 W
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Images

Image of Boscawen-Ros (Standing Stones) by Chris Bond

Boscawen Rôs or Boskenna Holed Stone near Boleigh, by the hedge at roughly SW 4276 2424. Photo taken from the west-north-west on 24 April 2004.

Image credit: Chris Bond
Chris Bond
Chris Bond Feb 23, 2025
Image of Boscawen-Ros (Standing Stones) by Chris Bond

Boscawen Rôs or Boskenna Holed Stone near Boleigh, by the hedge at roughly SW 4276 2424. Photo taken from the west-north-west on 24 April 2004.

Image credit: Chris Bond
Chris Bond
Chris Bond Feb 23, 2025
Image of Boscawen-Ros (Standing Stones) by Chris Bond

Boscawen Rôs or Boskenna Holed Stone near Boleigh, by the hedge at roughly SW 4276 2424. Photo taken from the west-north-west on 24 April 2004.

Image credit: Chris Bond
Chris Bond
Chris Bond Feb 23, 2025
Image of Boscawen-Ros (Standing Stones) by Chris Bond

Boscawen Rôs East Menhir near Boleigh. Photo taken from the west on 24 April 2004.

Image credit: Chris Bond
Chris Bond
Chris Bond Feb 23, 2025
Image of Boscawen-Ros (Standing Stones) by Chris Bond

Boscawen Rôs East Menhir near Boleigh. Photo taken from the west on 24 April 2004.

Image credit: Chris Bond
Chris Bond
Chris Bond Feb 23, 2025
Image of Boscawen-Ros (Standing Stones) by Chris Bond

Boscawen Rôs East Menhir near Boleigh. Photo taken from the west-south-west on 24 April 2004.

Image credit: Chris Bond
Chris Bond
Chris Bond Feb 23, 2025
Image of Boscawen-Ros (Standing Stones) by Chris Bond

Boscawen Rôs East Menhir near Boleigh. Photo taken from the west-south-west on 24 April 2004.

Image credit: Chris Bond
Chris Bond
Chris Bond Feb 23, 2025
Image of Boscawen-Ros (Standing Stones) by Standing Granite

Between winter solstice 2021 and 2022, I spent a year in this field, with Boscawen Ros (east). I was shooting a film which became A Year In A Field (Bosena films 2022). The film is a reflection on where we are now, set against a back story of who we might have been. I’ve spent many hours with this beautiful monolith at all times of the day, over many years. Each angle it is viewed from, each weather type, each crop that surrounds it and each season it stands there, this little visited stone continues to surprise. Boscawen Ros means the place of the elder on the Heath. This year (2024) the farmer has put the entire field down to gorgeous wildflowers.

Image credit: Christopher Morris
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Standing Granite Sep 30, 2024
Image of Boscawen-Ros (Standing Stones) by pure joy

suspicious stones 3 – 23.12.2002 (see text below)

Image credit: Martin Bull
pure joy
pure joy Feb 22, 2003
Image of Boscawen-Ros (Standing Stones) by pure joy

suspicious stones 2 – 23.12.2002 (see text below)

Image credit: Martin Bull
pure joy
pure joy Feb 22, 2003
Image of Boscawen-Ros (Standing Stones) by pure joy

suspicious stones 1, close to Boscawen-ros menhir – 23.12.2002

Image credit: Martin Bull
pure joy
pure joy Feb 22, 2003
Image of Boscawen-Ros (Standing Stones) by pure joy

Boscawen-ros menhir – 23.12.2002 – If you look hard you might just be able to make out the christian crosses burnt into the litchen....

Image credit: Martin Bull
pure joy
pure joy Feb 22, 2003

Articles

A Year in a Field (Trailer)

A small direct-action of stillness – twelve reflective months filming in a field with my phone.
Writer/Director
Chris Morris

texlahoma
texlahoma Jan 11, 2025

Boscawen-Ros

markj99
markj99 Feb 18, 2019

Visited 08.02.19

I followed the right of way path and found the large menhir in the middle of some cabbages. I skirted round the field to find the other menhir incorporated into the hedge at SW 42765 23920. I was convinced that the hedge was built round this standing stone. The second stone is around 60 yards WSW of the visible stone. There is an interesting capstone shaped stone at SW 42814 24011 on the eastern edge of the field, around 75 yards north of the visible menhir.

Boscawen-Ros

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CARL Apr 22, 2010

Visited 12.4.10.
Quite easy to access. There is a layby you can park in opposite the junction from the B3315 to St Buryan. The stone is not visible from here but all you need to do is go over the stone stile, go into the field and keep to the right hand side hedgerow. When you get to the bottom of the field the stone is visible over the hedge. This is only a 5 minute walk from the layby. When I visited the field in which the stone stands was full of crop so I settled for a view from the hedgerow.

Boscawen-Ros

thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 20, 2009

What a magnificent beast of a stone this is! I’ve only seen it from across the field before (and nine years ago at that), but this time went right up to it. At this time of year (19.6.09) the field is completely planted with cereal crops, so it was a matter of threading my way along various tractor tracks to get to the stone itself without causing untold damage.

Well worth it though, this is a lovely stone – not as tall as the Pipers and more slender, but an impressive lump of granite. I could have stayed longer but Merry Maidens and lunch at Lamorna beckoned.

Boscawen-Ros

pure joy
pure joy Jan 7, 2003

Boscawen-Ros Stones(s) – 23.12.2002

SW428239

Interesting. 2 stones marked on the OS map, but only one remains. Approach from Boskenna Cross at SW426243, where there is a lay-by at the junction of the B3315 and the side road to St.Buryan. A well signposted public footpath leads from here towards the field with the stone in it; which was very very boggy. The remaining stone measures 230cm (H) x 45 (W) x 55 (D) and when I visited had been vandalised by several Christian crosses burnt into the lichen on the stone. This site is not mentioned in Craig Weatherhill’s excellent 1981 book ‘Belerion: Ancient Sites of Land’s End’ (Cornwall Books).

So where is the other stone? In Ian McNeil Cooke’s ‘Standing Stones of the Land’s End’ (1998 – Men-an-Tol Studio) he says that today’s stone was “re-erected in the centre of the field….a second stone (2m) stands uprooted in the hedge to the West”. I couldn’t spot this, but both fields you walk in seem to be littered with large stones in the field walls! So the jury was out for me. I took photos of suspicious stones and have posted above. The one labelled ‘suspicious stones 1’ is of the stones in the hedge on the East side of the field (approx SW429239). The one labelled ‘suspicious stones 2’ is of suspicious stones now part of the West hedge in the first field (approx SW427242) L stone = 225 (W) x 160 (H) – R stone = 205 (H) x 125 (W). The one labelled ‘suspicious stones 3’ is of stones in the hedge right by the entrance from the road layby.

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