What is recorded here

No god, chamber or ceremony is recorded. The stone is a rough lm upright on an open ridge, tall enough to mark a direction and sturdy enough to have survived every cart that ever passed. If people ever gathered there, they went home and stopped repeating it. What remains is the shape of that forgetting: a tall stone, still standing where measurement first kept it visible.

On the summit of a NE-SW ridge in rich pasture. Named ‘Standing Stone’ on the 1920 OS 6 –inch map. A partially overgrown upright of coarse limestone (H 2.3m) with a subrectangular cross-section (1.4m x 0.4-0.45m) aligned N-S and tilting slightly to the SW at the top. Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney Date of upload: 17 November 2025

Likely dating to the Bronze Age, the standing stone may have functioned as a territorial marker or ritual monument. Its alignment and position on a prominent ridge suggest a possible ceremonial or astronomical significance, though specific folklore or use remains unrecorded.

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