Mên-an-Tol

The Men-an-Tol (Cornish for 'the stone with a hole') is a late Neolithic or early Bronze Age monument near Madron in Cornwall, England. It consists of a 1.3 m wide circular holed granite stone flanked by two 1.2 m tall standing stones. First investigated by William Borlase in 1749, his plan showed the stones formed an angle of about 135 degrees rather than today's alignment. A 1993 study by the Cornwall Archaeological Unit found evidence of 11 additional buried stones, suggesting the formation originated from a circle of 18-20 stones. Local folklore attributes healing powers to crawling through the hole.