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<< Our Photo Pages >> Portbury - Standing Stone (Menhir) in England in Somerset

Submitted by hamish on Wednesday, 04 February 2004  Page Views: 9811

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Portbury
Country: England County: Somerset Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Portishead  Nearest Village: Portbury
Map Ref: ST50277538  Landranger Map Number: 172
Latitude: 51.475183N  Longitude: 2.717425W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
 5

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4clydesdale7 visited on 18th Aug 2012 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5 Pity about the modern brass plaque - quite an imposing stone

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Portbury
Portbury submitted by hamish : (Vote or comment on this photo)
Stone of about 1.8 metres height standing on a little patch of grass between the school building and the church at Portbury, just off the main road to the north towards the M5.

A pleasant stone, with a sort of yellowish hew unlike the local basically red stone, it has a small plaque attached which states that the stone was re-erected here in the year 1988 after being found buried under a nearby dewpond (behind the church) in the 1950's.
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Portbury
Portbury submitted by theCaptain : Showing the stone in its place between the church and the school. However, its original position was behind the church. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Portbury
Portbury submitted by theCaptain : The Portbury stone re-erected on a little grassy area outside the church (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Portbury submitted by theCaptain (Vote or comment on this photo)

Portbury
Portbury submitted by theCaptain (Vote or comment on this photo)

Portbury
Portbury submitted by theCaptain : The little plaque mounted near the top of the stone, telling its recent history. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Portbury
Portbury submitted by hamish : (2 comments)

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Re: Portbury Standing Stone by 4clydesdale7 on Sunday, 19 August 2012
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The original siting of this stone (before it was found by the Local History Society lying in a Pond/Dew Pond) is shown clearly on the OS 1:2500 Maps for 1903/1915/1956 and 1:10560 Maps for 1920/1938 - in its present position beside the primary school (which seems to have been closed) you can 'get close up and personal' to it - pity they had to attach a brass plate to it - they could perhaps have avoided defacing it
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Re: Portbury Standing Stone by TheCaptain on Tuesday, 01 November 2011
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seen here on streetview


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Re: Portbury Standing Stone by PortburyHistorical on Friday, 21 April 2006
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Hi
My previous post was listed on 31 March as Anonymous. Am now a fully fledged member. If you want more info on our Stone then just ask. When I get time I will post some pictures.
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Re: Portbury Standing Stone by Anonymous on Friday, 31 March 2006
Just found your site. I was part of the team that 'discovered' the Portbury Standing Stone. We knew of its' existence and that it had been buried in a dew pond in a nearby field with other rubble by the farmer in the 1950's. In 1987, with some clever triangulation, we managed to locate pond, and retreive the stone with the help of a JCB!. We erected it on its current site outside the school in Feb 1988. Buried beneath it is a timecapsule with extracts of village life from 1988. The stone was quarried locally from Conygar Hill in Portbury.
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