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BOLEIGH STONE CIRCLE

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Possible site of a Bronze Age stone circle. According to documentary evidence, the circle had a diameter of '30 paces' and consisted of seven stones, four of which were still upright in the 18th century. It seems to have been destroyed later than 1861.

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SW 43752455. Approximate site of part of stone circle.
(1)

There is no trace of any part of a stone circle. The field has
been cleared and cultivated and on adjacent hedge has been
effaced. Many massive boulders have been pushed against the
surviving field hedges. (2)

Russell (1) notes two stone circles in St Buryan recorded by Borlase (1740) - Boleigh and Tregurnow - which she seems to regard as one and the same site. Russell only provides an NGR, for Tregurnow, although she surrounds it with question marks and it is not clear where she got it from. Using the same references, Barnatt (3) sites Boleigh circle at SW 4314 2444 and states that it stood a short distance to the WSW of Merry Maidens (record 422900). Boleigh circle had a diameter of `30 paces' and consisted of 7 stones, 4 still upright in the 18th century. It seems to have been destroyed later than 1861. (3)

Tregurnow stone circle is thought to have stood at SW 4375 2455, where until 2006 two stones were stood. See record XXX (4)

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( 1a) Externally held archive reference

Miscellaneous Extracts Drawings & Prints MS 45 (2) Penzance Library

( 1b) General reference

Blight JT. 1862. List of Antiquities in Kerrier & Penwith Page(s)12

( 1c) General reference

Halliwell JO. 1861. Rambles in West Cornwall Page(s)153

( 1d) General reference

Borlase W. Parochial Memoranda. Ms Egerton 2657 21

( 1) by Vivien Russell 1971 West Penwith survey

Page(s)36

( 2) Field Investigators Comments

F1 MJF 07-OCT-85

( 3) British Archaeological Reports: British series

Stone Circles of Britain 1989 (J Barnatt) 215, 1989 Page(s)395

(4) Externally held archive reference

Historic Environment Record for Cornwall 28212 [accessed JUL-2014]

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Tregurnow Stone Circle, refered by Russell in 1971, but not clear if it this circle or Boleigh which is referred to by Halliwell 1861. Two stones stoo...

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