Standing stone 200yds (180m) W of Chycarne
DatedEst. 2800–1800 BCE
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Overview
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What the sources say
Standing stone 200yds (180m) W of Chycarne is a menhir in St Just, United Kingdom. Its entries are Wikidata item Q17647628; the position in the catalogue is 50.0941° N, 5.6628° W.
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Where it sits in time
The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.
The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
The full article
About Standing stone 200yds (180m) W of Chycarne
This kind of monument hereSources for this section
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Britain and Ireland are rich in standing stones; the Atlas records many hundreds. Together with Brittany they hold about 50,000 examples across the Atlantic fringe of Europe, and many stand singly in fields. In Ireland they are usually in farmers' fields and are heavily worn by weather and by livestock rubbing against them. The stones are usually difficult to date. They were put up in many periods of prehistory as part of the wider megalithic cultures, and any single stone may be Neolithic, Bronze Age or later. Theories about their purpose remain speculative: rituals, territorial markers, or markers in a system of belief. The full article, “British and Irish standing stones”, follows below under About this kind of monument.
DatingSources for this section
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The Atlas shows 2800 BCE to 1800 BCE for this site, but that is a regional estimate for this kind of monument, not a date for this particular menhir. No excavation, radiocarbon sample or other measurement is recorded for it, so the real age could fall anywhere within the range, or outside it.
The range rests on this regional background (source: the Wikipedia article “Menhir”): Standing stones are associated with the Beaker people of the European late Neolithic and early Bronze Age c. 2800-1800 BC.
Landscape and neighbours
Counting outward from Standing stone 200yds (180m) W of Chycarne, there are 3 catalogued sites within 1 km, 16 within 5 km and 48 within 10 km, and 15 of them are also classed as menhir. It is one of 1 menhir records among the 11 sites catalogued in St Just, United Kingdom.
The closest catalogued sites are Chapel Carn Brea Tomb (0.5 km east, entrance grave); Round barrow 550yds (500m) N of Chycarne (0.5 km north-east, megalithic mound); Round cairn 230m SSW of Higher Tregiffian (0.8 km south-west, megalithic mound); Brane Barrow (2.0 km east, entrance grave). The catalogue is assembled from open records and is not complete, so unrecorded monuments may lie closer.
Records and protectionSources for this section
Sources for this section
Wikidata lists the site with the heritage status scheduled monument. The open records for it are Wikidata (Q17647628), where corrections and further identifiers can be added. Sites of this kind often lie on farmland or other private ground, so check local access rules before visiting and leave the monument as you found it.
How this page was madeSources for this section
Sources for this section
This page was built automatically from Wikidata (CC0), the heritage register named above and the regional article “British and Irish standing stones”, written for the Atlas from the Wikipedia articles it cites (CC BY-SA 4.0), plus distances and counts computed from the catalogue coordinates. It contains no AI-written text.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
British and Irish standing stones
Britain and Ireland are rich in standing stones; the Atlas records many hundreds. Together with Brittany they hold about 50,000 examples across the Atlantic fringe of Europe, and many stand singly in fields. In Ireland they are usually in farmers' fields and are heavily worn by weather and by livestock rubbing against them. The stones are usually difficult to date. They were put up in many periods of prehistory as part of the wider megalithic cultures, and any single stone may be Neolithic, Bronze Age or later. Theories about their purpose remain speculative: rituals, territorial markers, or markers in a system of belief.
Some stand in groups. The Calanais Stones on the Isle of Lewis, built around 2750 BCE, form a circle with a tall central monolith and several rows extending outwards in a cross-shaped plan, on a ridge overlooking Loch Roag. The Rollright Stones in Oxfordshire include the King's Men, the King Stone and the Whispering Knights, three monuments built in the Neolithic and Bronze Age.
Folklore: the names of the Rollright Stones come from stories told since the early modern period; legend holds that the King Stone comes alive at the stroke of midnight. At Calanais one tradition says the stones were giants who would not convert to Christianity, and in the seventeenth century the people of Lewis called them fir bhrèige, "false men". Another legend says that on midsummer morning an entity known as the Shining One walks the length of the avenue. These are traditions, not memories of the builders.
The Atlas treats isolated stones as undated unless they have been excavated.
When visiting, look at how a stone stands in relation to the landscape and to any nearby monument.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Menhir, Wikipedia: Callanish Stones, Wikipedia: Rollright Stones, Wikipedia: List of menhirs · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Lore
Evidence & Lore
What the sources actually support — and, kept apart, what has been claimed.
What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 2800–1800 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for menhirs in United Kingdom; this site has not been dated itself. Standing stones are associated with the Beaker people of the European late Neolithic and early Bronze Age c. 2800-1800 BC.Source for this date
Where it stands
United Kingdom
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 50°05′39″ N, 5°39′46″ WFor a GPS or map app: 50.09410, -5.66283
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
Chapel Carn Brea Tomb- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Round barrow 550yds (500m) N of Chycarne4000–800 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Round cairn 230m SSW of Higher Tregiffian4000–800 BCE
Brane Barrow
Round cairn on Carn Polpry4000–800 BCE
Boscawen-Un3200–2500 BCE
Large regular stone circle called Boscawen-Un with two outlying standing stones west of Boscawen Noon Farm3200–2500 BCE- Menhir (standing stone)Standing stone 230m west of the Old Manor2800–1800 BCE
Sources
Every record behind this page, with the link it came from.
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- 02Source for this dateen.wikipedia.org
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- Chapel Carn Brea Tomb0.5 km E
- Round barrow 550yds (500m) N of Chycarne0.5 km NE
- Round cairn 230m SSW of Higher Tregiffian0.8 km SW
- Brane Barrow2.0 km E
- Round cairn on Carn Polpry3.0 km NW
- Boscawen-Un3.1 km E
- Large regular stone circle called Boscawen-Un with two outlying standing stones west of Boscawen Noon Farm3.2 km E
- Standing stone 230m west of the Old Manor3.6 km SW
- Barrow 100yds (90m) SE of Halgolluir Farm4.1 km N
- Ballowall Barrow4.2 km NW
Credit
Text, licence and sources
This page is assembled from open records (Wikidata, CC0; OpenStreetMap, ODbL) and a tradition article paraphrasing Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). No article exists for this site, and nothing here is written by a model.
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