Goonhilly Downs - Dry Tree Menhir

The Dry Tree Menhir is a Bronze Age standing stone approximately 3 m tall on Goonhilly Downs, Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall. Made of gabbro rock transported from Crousa Downs about 2 miles away, it dates to roughly 3,000 years ago. The stone stands between two early Bronze Age round barrows (burial mounds). Treasure hunters toppled it in the 19th century, and soldiers removed about 3 feet from its top during WWI for road material. It was re-erected in 1927 with funding from Sir Courtney Vyvyan of Trelowarren. Local legend holds it marks where five ancient parish boundaries met.