Dry Tree menhir, Goonhilly Downs

Dry Tree menhir, Goonhilly Downs is shown and named in a reusable Geograph picture. The saved point is the picture's recorded map point.

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, the Dry Tree menhir may have served as a territorial marker, ceremonial monument, or astronomical alignment feature. Local folklore sometimes associates such stones with ancient spirits or as boundaries between the living and the otherworld.