Porthmeor

Nearest town:
Penzance (7km ESE)
OS reference:
SW432372
OS sheet:
203
Latitude:
50° 10' 42.32 N
Longitude:
5° 35' 50.41 W
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Images

Image of Porthmeor (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Chris Bond

Porthmeor Menhir, photographed from the south on 10 April 2004. © Chris Bond.

Image credit: Chris Bond
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Image of Porthmeor (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Chris Bond

Porthmeor Menhir, photographed from the south-south-east on 10 April 2004. © Chris Bond.

Image credit: Chris Bond
Chris Bond
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Image of Porthmeor (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Chris Bond

Porthmeor Menhir, photographed from the south-east on 10 April 2004. © Chris Bond.

Image credit: Chris Bond
Chris Bond
Chris Bond Dec 22, 2024
Image of Porthmeor (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Chris Bond

Porthmeor Menhir, photographed from the south-south-west on 16 August 2003. © Chris Bond.

Image credit: Chris Bond
Chris Bond
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Image of Porthmeor (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Chris Bond

Porthmeor Menhir, photographed from the south-south-east on 16 August 2003. © Chris Bond.

Image credit: Chris Bond
Chris Bond
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Image of Porthmeor (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Chris Bond

Porthmeor Menhir, photographed from the east-south-east on 16 August 2003. © Chris Bond.

Image credit: Chris Bond
Chris Bond
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Image of Porthmeor (Standing Stone / Menhir) by thesweetcheat

Looking SW, towards Carn Galva (where the rain came from).

Image credit: A. Brookes (18.6.2011)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 7, 2011
Image of Porthmeor (Standing Stone / Menhir) by thesweetcheat

This is one of those great Cornish stones that presents a completely different aspect from each of its faces.

Image credit: A. Brookes (18.6.2011)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 7, 2011
Image of Porthmeor (Standing Stone / Menhir) by postman

Drove past and spotted this one ,its by a farm so could be a rubbing post (don’t believe in them myself)

Image credit: christopher bickerton
postman
postman Aug 3, 2006
Image of Porthmeor (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Jane

A particularly fowl place, this...

>groan

Image credit: Jane Tomlinson
Jane
Jane Mar 23, 2004

Articles

Porthmeor

thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 14, 2011

The stone at Porthmeor is one that we’ve seen dozens of times, as the bus ride from St Ives round the coast goes straight past its field. Despite that, we’ve never once gone in for a closer look. Animals usually surround it – cows, horses, chickens, geese, dogs, cats and a fox have all been seen in its company over the years. But today there’s nothing, just us. A footpath runs across the field, right past the stone, so access is as easy as can be.

From the road, the stone presents a chunky, but gently curving aspect. Once closer at hand though it becomes apparent that this is one of those great standing stones that changes its appearance from each direction (not as markedly as Boswens Croft, but nevertheless). The close proximity of the houses and farm buildings does detract somewhat from the setting and atmosphere, but this is still a fine stone, worthy of your attention. Looking inland, the craggy northern edges of the moors form the backdrop, and over from that direction the sky takes on an angry complexion, promising that rain is not far away.

Porthmeor

C
CARL Apr 20, 2010

Visited 11.4.10.
Easily seen in the field opposite Porthmeor farm house on the B3306. Every time I passed the field it was full of cows – and the odd chicken! In fact the road which runs through the farm always seemed to have plenty of animals happily wandering across the road – drive slowly!

Porthmeor

formicaant
formicaant Jun 16, 2007

This stands in the middle of a field which had cattle in it when I visited it. As it stands at seven feet in height it’s probably too tall to be a lately erected rubbing post, anyway I’ve seen cows scratching themselves on the Men Scryfa and no one seems to doubt it’s age, well some do, but I don’t.

Porthmeor

Jane
Jane Mar 23, 2004

The moondogchickengoosestone, as we preferred to call it, stands in a field opposite Porthmeor farmhouse and whenever we happened to pass it, morning, noon or night, some kind of Old MacDonald thing was going on.... dogs, horses, geese, chooks, cows...

On the way to see the fullmoon rise over Lanyon Quoit, we passed this stone and as the car swung round the corner by this stone, the full moon appeared in the sky straight in front, almost dazzling us, huge and low and bright. And in the corner of my eye I saw a sheepdog at the roadside, spinning round and round and round chasing its tail in the moonlight.

This stone does crazy things to animals.

Miscellaneous

Porthmeor
Standing Stone / Menhir
pure joy
pure joy Jan 15, 2003

Porthmeor menhir

SW432372 – Ian McNeil Cooke’s ‘Standing Stones of the Land’s End’ (1998 – Men-an-Tol Studio) says “stands in mid-field by footpath; excavated in 1879 but no finds. There are confused records indicating that the present stone may be a replacement for one broken up for
road building about two centuries ago”. 2.1m tall.

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