<< Our Photo Pages >> Tortworth Stone - Standing Stone (Menhir) in England in Gloucestershire
Submitted by dooclay on Tuesday, 05 January 2010 Page Views: 4645
Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Tortworth StoneCountry: England County: Gloucestershire Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Map Ref: ST7088092360
Latitude: 51.629293N Longitude: 2.422096W
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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Dooclay adds: I knocked at the house to obtain permission to visit - finding no-one in and no sign of the stone visible. Next door, in through an open gate, I saw this stone in the hedge - the only thing even remotely like a menhir but with no sign of the owner here I left.
From Pastscape: "A possible megalith has been identified at Tortworth."
www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=205378
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