Just learned about Boscawen-Un in Cornwall (3000-1500 BC) — a stone circle where the central monolith sits off-center because it gradually slipped over time. Packing stones beneath it locked the lean in place. Apparently there are subtle rock engravings too, easy to miss unless someone points them out. What a lovely detail. 🪨
Boscawen-Un stone circle features leaning monolith and hidden carvings
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Key facts
- Stone circle in Cornwall with a central monolith that is not at the center but off to one side
- The monolith was not originally leaning; it slipped over time from its original position
- Packing stones placed underneath the monolith have locked it in its leaning position
- Site contains subtle rock engravings/carvings that visitors would not notice unless pointed out
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Sources
Boscawen-Un hedge (Standing Stone / Menhir)themodernantiquarian.com
Newlyn, Cornwall. Right next to the farm track, the pointy bulk of Bowscawen-Un hedge stone looms. this is a huge stone. Its triangular shape. Boscawen-Ûn ( ...
Boscawen Un Stone Circle - St. Buryan, Cornwallstone-circles.org.uk
Boscawen-Un is an almost impossibly beautiful and secluded stone circle set on a gently southwest facing slope that leads down 200 metres to a small un-named ...
Boscawen-ûn Stone Circlecornishancientsites.com
Boscawen-ûn (prounounced Bosca-noon) Stone Circle lies to the south of the main A30 road between Penzance and Land's End about a mile before Crows-an-Wra.
Boscawen-un Stone Circlecornishbirdblog.com
The placement of the 19 upright stones apparently follows the course that the moon takes across the night sky. Boscawen Un is not the only circle in the Penwith ...
Boscawen-Unen.wikipedia.org
Boscawen-Ûn is a Bronze Age stone circle close to St Buryan in Cornwall, UK. It consists of nineteen upright stones in an ellipse … diameters 24.9 and 21.9 ...
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