What is recorded here
Four stones fell in the nineteenth century, leaving one behind. The survivor lies flat in a field fence, not far from the farmhouse where the group once stood. It is easier to picture five stones than one, as if the missing four still occupy the air around the last.
In a field fence SW of farmhouse, in prostrate position (max. dims. H 1.6m, 0.4m square in section). According to local tradition five stones formerly stood at farmhouse to NE, all but one of which were uprooted in the nineteenth century (see LH003-011001-). This may have been part of the group.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 9 November 2011
Likely dating to the Late Neolithic or Bronze Age, this standing stone may have originally been part of a small ritual or territorial stone setting. Local tradition suggests it was part of a group associated with the farmhouse, possibly linked to protective or ancestral folklore.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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