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HER Number:	1975.10
Name:	FERNACRE - Neolithic standing stone, Bronze Age standing stone

Summary

A small menhir 0.5m high in open moorland pasture to the east of Fernacre Stone Circle.

Grid Reference:	SX 1455 7997
Parish:	St Breward, North Cornwall, Cornwall
Map:	Show location on Streetmap

Protected Status: None recorded

Other References/Statuses

Cornwall PROJECT ID: BM
OS No. (OS Quarter-sheet and OS No.): SX17NW 83-(M)23
Primary Record No. (1985-2009): 1975.10
SMR No. (OS Quarter-sheet and SMR No.): SX17NW 121

Monument Type(s):

STANDING STONE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2501 BC)
STANDING STONE (Bronze Age - 2500 BC to 801 BC)

Full description

A small menhir situated on a gentle east slope in open moorland pasture. It was first recorded in 1906 (b1), and was described by Gray (b2) as an upright stone, 0.5m high and 0.5m wide and 0.4m thick, with a rather jagged top. These two early sources site the stone 49.0m east of Fernacre Stone Circle (1975) and 1.5 degrees off a line from the centre of the circle to the highest point of Brown Willy. The stone could not be located by the OS fieldworker in 1973 (h1), but it was visible when Barnatt (b3) visited the site, though he thought its position in relation to the stone circle could be coincidental.

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Site history:
1: 1973. MHB / OS
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<1> Page, W (Editor), 1906, Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, VOL I, 394 (Bibliographic reference). SCO4068.

<2> Gray, H St. G, 1908, On the Stone Circles of East Cornwall, VOL 61, 35-36 (Article in Journal). SCO6957.

<3> Barnatt, J, 1982, Prehistoric Cornwall: The Ceremonial Monuments, 170 (Bibliographic reference). SCO2777.

Sources / Further Reading

[1]	SCO4068 - Bibliographic reference: Page, W (Editor). 1906. Victoria History of the County of Cornwall. VOL I, 394.
[2]	SCO6957 - Article in Journal: Gray, H St. G. 1908. On the Stone Circles of East Cornwall. Archaeologia. 61. 1-60. VOL 61, 35-36.
[3]	SCO2777 - Bibliographic reference: Barnatt, J. 1982. Prehistoric Cornwall: The Ceremonial Monuments. 170.

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

Related records

1975	Part of: FERNACRE - Neolithic stone circle, Bronze Age stone circle (Monument)

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