Delford Bridge Menhir

Nearest town:
Bodmin (9km SSW)
OS reference:
SX112758
OS sheet:
200
Latitude:
50° 33' 2.9 N
Longitude:
4° 39' 55.5 W
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Image of Delford Bridge Menhir by thesweetcheat

Looking north to Roughtor (centre) and Brown Willy (right of the upright).

Image credit: A. Brookes (20.6.2019)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Nov 17, 2019
Image of Delford Bridge Menhir by thesweetcheat

I’m definitely all for this being the remains of a quoit. The fact that there aren’t enough stones left to make one doesn’t seem that important. The one upright is massive and just the right height for balancing a capstone on. It’s also very unlike pretty much any ‘proper’ Cornish standing stones. Whatever it is, it’s a really good site to visit.

Image credit: A. Brookes (20.6.2019)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Nov 17, 2019
Image of Delford Bridge Menhir by phil

Looking towards the northwest.

Buildings at the back are at West Rose.

phil
phil Mar 25, 2002
Image of Delford Bridge Menhir by phil

Side view of the stone.
This photo was taken from the roadside at......err Delford bridge

phil
phil Mar 24, 2002

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Delford Bridge Menhir

phil
phil Mar 25, 2002

I passed this site totally by chance.

I just noticed it over a hedge as I approach the clapper bridge at Delford.

I took several photos with zoom lense from the road side.

Looking at the stone from different angles it looks to me like a fallen Quoit stone, other stones scattered around it would add weight to this theory.

Looking on the map I found that the neighbouring farms go by the names
Penquite, South Penquite, Best Penquite, Higher Penquite and Lower Penquite

“Pen” = Hill or Head “quite” could be a corruption of quoit

hence: Quoit on the hill
Anyone agree?

Phil

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