<< Our Photo Pages >> Colquite Menhir - Standing Stone (Menhir) in England in Cornwall
Submitted by TheCaptain on Saturday, 04 December 2010 Page Views: 4937
Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Colquite MenhirCountry: England
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County: Cornwall Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Launceston Nearest Village: Altarnun
Map Ref: SX22657675
Latitude: 50.563520N Longitude: 4.505467W
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 |
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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 |
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The stone is nearly 6 feet tall in a little enclosure type area where the walls go around it, which would seem unusual for many reasons. It is a slender stone only one and a half feet wide at the bottom. There are no markings which I would expect of a boundary stone, but there is one hole two thirds the way up, which suggests perhaps once it was a gatepost – but why would the walls avoid it?
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