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Little Balsmith
Trip No.1 Entry No.1 Date Added: 23rd Aug 2026
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 6th Aug 2026. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Little Balsmith submitted by cosmic on 23rd Oct 2004. View fromup farm road to West
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Log Text: You're not so small Little Balsmith - are you? A towering beauty.
Carreg y Big (Shropshire)
Date Added: 20th Nov 2023
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Carreg y Big (Shropshire) submitted by TimPrevett on 22nd Jul 2004. This shows the stone just in front of the meeting of the three boundaries.
"The Big Stone", as this translates, is as about as Welsh as it can be whilst still just in England! The Welsh border is not far, and Offa's Dyke makes its presence felt less than a mile away.
The stone is on a south facing slope, leaning to the west, at the meeting of three boundaries - a fine example of a hoarstone, or boundary stone. The stone is carbonifeous limestone, and 6 feet tall by 4 by 3 approx. There is ...
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