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MONUMENT NO. 430426

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Standing stone known as the Long Stone or Eddystone. It is a massive, unworked block of quartz, set upright, and standing roughly 4 metres high. A small hole in the top of the stone was used to support a weather vane. The tithe map of 1842 indicates the existence of a prehistoric barrow, now levelled, associated with the standing stone.

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"Long Stone" - a large rough quartz stone fixed upright, about 13 ft high.'
Standing stone at Music-water (Name SW 904 685). (1,2)

(SW 9055 6869) Long Stone (NAT) (applies to 'dot' symbol). (3)

A standing stone of unworked white quartz 3.6 metres high, tapering from an approximately 1.8 metres "square" base. A metal spike has been set in the top with a crude wooden carving of a fish attached to it to form a weather vane. (4)

No change since report of 25 1 72.

Surveyed at 1:2500 on PFD. (5)

SW 90556869. Standing stone known as the Long Stone or Eddystone. It is a massive, unworked block of quartz, set upright, and standing roughly 4 metres high. A small hole in the top of the stone was used to support a weather vane. The tithe map of 1842 indicates the existence of a prehistoric barrow, now levelled, associated with the standing stone. Scheduled. (6)

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( 1) General reference

Pydar map & notes. C1842 70 (R Thomas)

( 2) William C Borlase 1872 Naenia Cornubiae

Naenia Cornubiae 1872, 98 (W C Borlase) Page(s)98

( 3) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1880

( 4) Field Investigators Comments

F1 MJF 25-JAN-72

( 5) Field Investigators Comments

F2 NVQ 18-APR-77

(6) Scheduled Monument Notification

08-SEP-2003

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