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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Huncote StoneCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 0.992 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Leicestershire and Rutland Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Leicester Nearest Village: Huncote
Map Ref: SP5246497256
Latitude: 52.570605N Longitude: 1.22735W
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 |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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This stone is at the roadside on the boundary of Huncote and Croft parishes.
It was formerly embedded in a tree trunk and was removed and subsequently replaced (but possibly not in the exactly the same place) in about 1970 during road repair work.
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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