<< Our Photo Pages >> The Fiddler - Standing Stone (Menhir) in England in Cornwall
Submitted by hamish on Monday, 13 June 2005 Page Views: 8632
Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: The Fiddler Alternative Name: Magi Stone, The Blind FiddlerCountry: England County: Cornwall Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Wadebridge Nearest Village: St Breock
Map Ref: SW9393368211
Latitude: 50.477404N Longitude: 4.905704W
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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markj99 visited on 13th Oct 2013 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 4 The Fiddler Stone is an irregular chest shaped stone in the corner of a field c. 30 yards N of SW 93919 68180. It is difficult to imagine how the stone originally looked.
TheCaptain visited on 28th Sep 2012 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Nowadays not much more than a large lump of stone laying in a field to the east of the A39 on the highpoint of land as the road passes over St Breock downs. It is positioned at a point where the line of the 9 Maidens would cross the top of the ridge.
It is lovely light up here this afternoon, but the stone is across a fence from where I can walk to up the farm track, and the field full of livestock. It doesn't look that exciting, so I'll satisfy myself with taking pictures from the edge of the field. There is so much other large stone all around up here, that it is impossible to really tell what would be megalithic and what is field clearance.
SandyG mikeaitch hamish have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.5 Ambience: 4 Access: 4
Find a safe place to park and cross the road. Fields usually full of sheep but the Stone is quite easy to get to.
The Stone Rows of Great Britain adds: "It is however not known with any certainty whether the Fiddler at the northern end originally formed part of the [Nine Maidens Stone] row. It is however probable that this now isolated stone formed the northern end of the row".
For more information see the Stone Rows of Great Britain's entry for Nine Maidens, which includes a simplified plan of the row and its immediate prehistoric landscape, including The Fiddler and a nearby cairn. Also see 'Nine Maidens Stone Row' in the list of 'nearby sites' below for information from Pastscape and Historic England.
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