Boskednan stone circle

Stone circles such as that at Boskednan, were erected in the late Neolithic or in the early Bronze Age by representatives of a Megalithic culture. The first mention of the stone circle in modern times, in 1754, is found in the work Antiquities, historical and monumental, of the County of Cornwall by William Borlase, who reported 19 upright standing stones. William Copeland Borlase, a descendant of the earlier Borlase, conducted excavations and found a cist and a funerary urn near the stone circle, dating from the early Bronze Age. Borlase described his discoveries in 1872 in his work Naenia Cornubiae, which concerns prehistoric monuments of Cornwall.

Boskednan stone circle consists of a ring of granite stones set in open upland countryside in west Cornwall. The stones form a roughly circular shape about 22 m across. Archaeologists believe the circle originally contained around twenty-two stones placed around the edge of the ring. Today ten stones survive. Six of these still stand upright, while the others lie fallen or partly buried in the grass. Most of the stones are relatively small compared with some other stone circles in Britain. Many stand about 1 m high, although the tallest reach nearly 2 m. The stones are natural pieces of local granite rather than carefully shaped blocks, giving the monument a rugged and irregular appearance.…