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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Wymeswold StoneCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 4.022 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Leicestershire and Rutland Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Loughborough Nearest Village: Wymeswold
Map Ref: SK604234
Latitude: 52.804781N Longitude: 1.105484W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Standing Stone in Leicestershire and Rutland.
A mark stone just to the north-east of the churchyard. A local life-long resident remembers it as being previously itwice as high and nearer the main road but was moved and broken in the process.
However, the stone appears well rounded with no evidence of comparatively recent damage.
Based on the description by, and used by kind permission of, Bob Trubshaw, from his Interactive Little-known Leicestershire and Rutland CD-ROM.
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