Burras Menhir

Also known as:
Burhos
Nearest town:
Camborne (6km NW)
OS reference:
SW679344
OS sheet:
203
Latitude:
50° 9' 48.5 N
Longitude:
5° 15' 0.88 W
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Image of Burras Menhir by hamish

If you download the picture and zoom in to the lower third of the stone you can see some interesting faces.

Image credit: Mike Murray
hamish
hamish Nov 23, 2004

Articles

Burras Menhir

postman
postman Aug 5, 2015

We went to Paignton zoo earlier on today, the kids asked “what next dad”,
“umm, some stones maybe” I replied, pushing my luck,
“ok”
That went better than I expected so we drove back into Cornwall and headed for Redruth, no mean feat with the A30 being widened and so, actual hell on the roads.

A trio of sites for this evenings delectation, with blue skies and bright sunshine, I pulled up at the entrance to the farm house and saw the tall stone not far away. If you look on Google earth streetview there’s an actual stone head on his way over to the stone.
The stones not far from the road but a locked gate needs to be climbed over, so we did. Private property or not a look from the road aint never going to be enough. En route to the stone a car drove up the farm house driveway, we had a good look at the stone, took a few photos, copped a feel and made our way back to the car.
No problem.

Burras Menhir

C
CARL Apr 26, 2010

visited 14.4.10.
What a whoppa! Situated at the entrance of (Leazby?) farm. The stone is a good 10ft tall and unmissable from the B3297. When I visited I parked at the farm entrance (next to a Tesco lorry which had broken down!) and observed the stone from the fence. The small field which the stone stands in is clearly private and was full of sheep at the time.

Burras Menhir

hamish
hamish Nov 23, 2004

I liked this stone, although it is re-erected it has a certain ambience. If you have a chance to talk to the farmer he (for a Cornishman) gets quite chatty about it.

Folklore

Burras Menhir
Standing Stone / Menhir
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Nov 1, 2024

There is a fine menhir at Lizerea Farm, Burhos, Wendron, which had fallen down, and was re-erected some fifty years ago by the then tenants of the farm – the three Pearce brothers. They were enormously strong men – one of them being the redoubtable champion wrestler, John “the Samson of Wendron.” It is said that these young men performed this tremendous task in order to leave a lasting memorial of their herculean strength.

Folklore in action by the sound of it. From an article on ‘Antiquities of the Helston District’ by A.S. Oates, in the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser on the 20th May 1948.

Miscellaneous

Burras Menhir
Standing Stone / Menhir
phil
phil Dec 2, 2001

This 9.8 foot menhir first recorded in 1906.
It stands just over a mile south west of Carmenellis.

It was re-erected in the early seventies and unsimpathetically set in a base of concrete.

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