Piles Hill longstone

Nearest town:
Rattery (8km ENE)
OS reference:
SX654607
OS sheet:
202
Latitude:
50° 25' 48.31 N
Longitude:
3° 53' 43.21 W
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Images

Image of Piles Hill longstone (Standing Stone / Menhir) by thesweetcheat

The stone in its landscape, with cairn topped Ugborough Beacon (left) and Butterdon Hill (right) providing the backdrop.

Image credit: A. Brookes (10.6.2010)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 7, 2010
Image of Piles Hill longstone (Standing Stone / Menhir) by thesweetcheat

Showing how much the re-erected stone is leaning (with excellent scale-providing pony).

Image credit: A. Brookes (10.6.2010)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 7, 2010
Image of Piles Hill longstone (Standing Stone / Menhir) by thesweetcheat

When I arrived this lovely pony was having a nice time scratching his rear end on the stone.

Image credit: A. Brookes (10.6.2010)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 7, 2010
Image of Piles Hill longstone (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Billy Fear

I’m pretty sure that this is the recumbent longstone.
02/05/2009

Image credit: Billy Fear
Billy Fear
Billy Fear May 7, 2009

Articles

Piles Hill longstone

thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Aug 23, 2010

When I approach the Longstone, a wild pony is having an enjoyable backside-scratch up against it. It think my arrival must have been a disappointment! This re-erected stone is over 2 metres high and is a big old lump, standing next to a much more modern boundary marker. From here there are extensive views across the moors.

Piles Hill longstone

Mr Hamhead
Mr Hamhead Sep 28, 2005

Is this the longstone still marked on the latest OS map as recumbent? I have visited it twice now and can find no other stone in the area that could be the longstone.
Found on the southern side of Piles Hill just to the left of the Two Moors Way. It has a boundry stone beside it and tends to be surrounded by mud caused by cattle using it as a rubbing stone.

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