Prospidnick Longstone

Nearest town:
Helston (4km S)
OS reference:
SW659315
OS sheet:
203
Latitude:
50° 8' 11.92 N
Longitude:
5° 16' 35.12 W
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Images

Image of Prospidnick Longstone (Standing Stone / Menhir) by goffik

Memory, my fickle friend... I remember this being all overgrown! Obviously not.

Image credit: Goffik
goffik
goffik Jun 9, 2003
Image of Prospidnick Longstone (Standing Stone / Menhir) by ocifant

September 2002: Mikki getting all touchy-feely with the stone.
“It’s part of an old house, someone lived here...”

Image credit: Alan S>
ocifant
ocifant May 17, 2003

Articles

Prospidnick Longstone

pure joy
pure joy Oct 7, 2003

Prospidnick Menhir – 1st October 2003

It’s not easy to describe exactly how to get here through the variety of lanes. Probably best to get an OS map. Or try this. On the B3297 just north of Helston, take the first left after the golf course (signposted ‘Coverack Bridges’; and others). Pass the red phone box at Coverack Bridges and continue along the lane, past the school. Take the next right at a small triangular junction. This lane takes you past the farm at Chyreen. Just past Halvance Farm there is a small junction. Go right (signposted ‘Releath’ and the sexy menhir is then clearly in view on your right.

This slim but tall stone lies in the field wall on the roadside. There is space almost opposite to park for a short while.

Prospidnick Longstone

goffik
goffik Jun 9, 2003

Now there’s a thing – I never knew what this was called! Didn’t really know where it was! We were just driving around trying to find stones and things on a really lame map of ours! On the way back from a really soggy day at Goonhilly – nearly drove past it, actually! It is (as I recall – it was nearly 2 years ago now...) just past the corner on the road from Tregathenan to Releath pretty much embedded in a hedge, but by ‘eck – what a corker! Looking at the picture again, I realise that it was not embedded in a hedge at all. Silly boy.

Miscellaneous

Prospidnick Longstone
Standing Stone / Menhir
pure joy
pure joy May 14, 2003

Mentioned by Craig Weatherhill, in “Cornovia: Ancient Sites of Cornwall & Scilly” (Cornwall Books – 1985, revised 1997 & 2000) as a “fine stone…situated just below the summit of Prospidnick Hill, on the east side of the lane, and stands 3.0m high. Like so many other Bronze Age menhirs, it is known locally as ‘The Longstone’.”

Topics

Prospidnick Menhir 5
Chris Bond
Chris Bond
Dec 2004
Prospidnick Longstone page on TMA 5
Moth
Moth
Jun 2003

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