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<< Our Photo Pages >> Carnewas Longstone - Standing Stone (Menhir) in England in Cornwall

Submitted by SheilaH on Thursday, 01 April 2010  Page Views: 8011

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Carnewas Longstone
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.6 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Cornwall Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Newquay  Nearest Village: St. Mawgan
Map Ref: SW84756885
Latitude: 50.479842N  Longitude: 5.03531W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Carnewas Longstone
Carnewas Longstone submitted by SheilaH : Carnewas Longstone September 2009 (Vote or comment on this photo)
In boundary hedge of National Trust Car Park at Carnewas for Bedruthan Steps on Newquay side where coastal footpath passes through hedge. Discovered September 2009 by Sheila Harper and Steve Hebdige.

The stone is down on its side and the Cornish stone hedge was built along it. It is about 9 feet tall and follows an alignment which passes via St. Eval Longstone, The Magi Stone and then to Breock Downs and Men Gurta. It is made of the same quartz rock as these which is local to the area. We reported it to the County Archaeologists and it has been seen by them. It is a similar size to what the Magi Stone would have been before it was broken up.
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Carnewas Longstone submitted by Bladup : Carnewas Longstone (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Carnewas Longstone submitted by Bladup : Carnewas Longstone. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Carnewas Longstone submitted by Bladup : Like theCaptain says there's lots of other large quartz stones nearby, No better or worse than the recorded Carnewas Longstone. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Carnewas Longstone
Carnewas Longstone submitted by Bladup : Like theCaptain says there's lots of other large quartz stones nearby, No better or worse than the recorded Carnewas Longstone, Looking North. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Carnewas Longstone submitted by DrNickLeB : Carnewas Longstone. Both sides of the wall, showing the stone buried beneath it. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Carnewas Longstone submitted by DrNickLeB : Carnewas Longstone. South side of the wall.

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Carnewas Longstone submitted by DrNickLeB : Carnewas Longstone. North side of the wall.

Carnewas Longstone
Carnewas Longstone submitted by theCaptain : Sept 2013; no longer uncovered like in the previous pictures, the wall has been rebuilt on top of where the stone is laying, leaving just the two ends visible.

Carnewas Longstone
Carnewas Longstone submitted by theCaptain (2 comments)

Carnewas Longstone
Carnewas Longstone submitted by theCaptain : There are several other large quartzy blocks laying around in the Bedruthan Steps clifftop area at various places. (1 comment)

Carnewas Longstone
Carnewas Longstone submitted by theCaptain

Carnewas Longstone
Carnewas Longstone submitted by theCaptain

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Re: Carnewas Longstone by Anonymous on Monday, 20 October 2014
Was fascinated to discover this information about the Carnewas Longstone, via Wikipedia. I had not realised at all what it was when we carried out the hedge restoration in 2013. This was part of a series of South West Coast Path improvement projects that attracted funding as part of their 40th Anniversary year. To me it looked like the spar stone had in the past been aligned with and part of the original hedge (you can clearly see the footing stones right across where the path runs today) but may have been pushed aside partially during the creation of this section of Coast Path when the hole was punched through? We had wondered about what to do about the spar stone , but clearly it was too big to move anywhere(!) so the courses of stone have just been built on and around it.

Mike Simmonds - Head Ranger, National Trust, Tintagel to Holywell Bay Properties
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Re: Carnewas Longstone by TheCaptain on Friday, 11 October 2013
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Stopped off at Bedruthan again in September 2013. Despite not having planned for this and found for sure where this stone is said to be, my memory told me it was to the south of the NT shop etc, on the main coastal path, where we hadn't looked last year. South a couple of hundred yards to the first main field boundary, and here is the stone, not uncovered like in the previous pictures, the wall is in the process of being rebuilt, and the side where the stone is laying has now been completely rebuilt on top of it, leaving just the two ends visible. There is also a large lump of white quartzy rock at the nearby intersection of walls, which I wonder if it is another stander there, or perhaps a part broken from the fallen stone been put there. Can't get near to have a thorough look.
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Re: Carnewas Longstone by TheCaptain on Thursday, 03 January 2013
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When I visited Bedruthan Steps in September, I was unprepared beforehand, and I did not know exactly where to find this stone, although I believe I saw it many years ago, and had a good idea where to find it. Despite a fair bit of looking around, I could not find this stone.

However, there are several other large quartzy blocks laying around in the Bedruthan Steps clifftop area at various places.
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Re: Carnewas Longstone by SheilaH on Thursday, 07 October 2010
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Position is 50degrees 28’47.14”N 5degrees02’06.86”W using Google Earth

Carnewas Longstone is made of silcrete - see 'Cornwall's Geology and Scenery' by Colin M. Bristow - quote 'a special type of weathering of which lead to the precipitation of silica in the weathering profile to form a hard rock known as silcrete. The most famous examples of silcrete are the sarsens of Salisbury Plain.'

The Cornish silcrete is a dirty white/white rock veined with quartz sometimes containing bits of slatey material and showing iron staining. The deposit runs in a band certainly up to and beyond St. Breock Downs. It is the material that St. Eval Longstone, the Nine Maidens, Men Gurta, other standing stones in the area and Duloe Stone Circle are made of. I am visiting other sites in the County where quartz or white or felspar or spar rocks have been reported - might take years to see them all - first will be Boscawen - un circle then a 'white' standing stone at St. Tudy. This is to see if any Cornish silcrete sarsens have been moved distances away from their original location - echos of moving the blue stones at Stonehenge... we shall see. Spar is the Cornish term for any white rock.
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