Mên-an-Tol
Sign in to saveAlso known as Men an Toll, Men-an-Tol, Stone setting and holed stone known as the Men-an-Tol, 315m south east of Coronation Farm
The Mên-an-Tol (Cornish: Men an Toll) is a small formation of standing stones in Cornwall, England (). It is about three miles northwest of Madron. It is also known locally as the "Crick Stone".
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Mên-an-Tol
- Ancient site.alternate_name
- Crick Stone
- Ancient site.image
- Menantol5.jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- Mên-an-Tol in 2006
- Ancient site.map_type
- Southwest Cornwall
- Ancient site.mapframe
- yes
- Ancient site.mapframe zoom
- 13
- Ancient site.location
- Cornwall
- Ancient site.type
- Standing stones
- Ancient site.epochs
- Neolithic / Bronze Age
- Ancient site.condition
- Good
- Ancient site.ownership
- CASPN
- Ancient site.public_access
- Yes
- Ancient site.designation1
- Scheduled monument
- Ancient site.designation1_offname
- Stone setting and holed stone known as the Mên-an-Tol, 315m south east of Coronation Farm
- Ancient site.designation1_number
- 1004641
- Ancient site.designation1_date
- 14 December 1926
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- archaeological site
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Madron
- Image
- Men-an-Tol 2004.jpg
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- Commons category
- Mên-an-Tol
- OS grid reference
- SW426349
- heritage designation
- scheduled monument
- historic county
- Cornwall
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The Mên-an-Tol (Cornish: Men an Toll) is a small formation of standing stones in Cornwall, England (). It is about three miles northwest of Madron. It is also known locally as the "Crick Stone".
==Location== The Mên-an-Tol stands near the Madron to Morvah road in Cornwall. Other antiquities in the vicinity include the Mên Scryfa inscribed stone about 300 metres to the north and the Boskednan stone circle less than 1 kilometre to the northeast.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mên-an-Tol” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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