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Image of Choone (Holed Stone) by Chris Bond

Choone Holed Stone, close to the Merry Maidens Stone Circle at Boleigh. Photograph taken from the north-east on 1 February 2003. © Chris Bond.

Image credit: Chris Bond

Chris Bond Jan 26, 2025

Choone Holed Stone, close to the Merry Maidens Stone Circle at Boleigh. Photograph taken from the north-north-west on 1 February 2003. © Chris Bond.

Image credit: Chris Bond

Chris Bond Jan 26, 2025

Image of Choone (Holed Stone) by StoneClub

Image credit: Lally MacBeth

StoneClub Sep 30, 2024

Image of Choone (Holed Stone) by thesweetcheat

Sporting midsummer vegetation.

Image credit: A.Brookes (19.6.2008)

thesweetcheat Jan 4, 2009

Postcard of Holed Stone at Choone, St Buryan, c.1905 (The Whipping Stock Stone, LB, PZ, No. 136)

Chris Bond Apr 4, 2006

Image of Choone (Holed Stone) by Vicster

This lovely stone is in a hedge on the opposite side of the road from the Merry Maidens.

I do like a good stone with a hole in it....!

Vicster Mar 26, 2006

march 2003

phil Mar 16, 2003

09/02

stubob Aug 18, 2002

Articles

Choone

Holed Stone

Rhiannon Oct 16, 2006

196 1/2 feet and 8 degrees west of north from the nearest stone of the circle is a stone 5 feet 4 inches high, with a hole 5 1/4 inches in diameter through the upper part of it; this stone is now used as a gate-post and may perhaps not now occupy its original position..
An old stonebreaker, who told me in 1898 that he had been in the place for seventy years.. said with regard to the holed stone, that it had been moved from its original position, where it had stood in connection with another holed stone, and that when the sun shone through the holes in some particular way “they called it Midsummer”; this may be only a repetition of something said by modern visitors, but it may, on the other hand, be an echo of an old tradition, so it is perhaps worth recording.

Prehistoric Remains in Cornwall
A. L. Lewis
The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 35. (Jul. – Dec., 1905), pp. 427-434.

I’m guessing this could be the stone mentioned below, and it has indeed been moved as Phil suggests. I’m not sure the sizes fit, but the hole might look suitably wide. Otherwise, I guess it’s a different one, holed stones galore.

Near the Dawns Men, in the fence of a field by the footpath leading to Borah, is another holed stone, laid down lengthways. It is thirty-three inches wide at one end, tapering down to ten inches at the other, and seven inches in thickness. The circular hole, five inches in diameter, is seven inches from the extremity of the widest portion.

Rambles in Western Cornwall by the Footsteps of the Giants by J O Halliwell-Phillipps (1861).

Choone

Holed Stone

Grumbla Dec 10, 2006

“About 65 paces exactly north of Rosmodreuy Circle is a flat stone 6 inches thick at a medium, 2 foot 6 inches wide and 5 foot high; 15 inches below the top it has a hole 6 inches diameter, quite through....In the adjoining hedge I perceived another, holed in the same manner.”

William Borlase – Observations on the Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall – 1st edition, printed by W Jackson, 1754.

Choone

Holed Stone

phil Oct 11, 2003

This little known stone is built in a hedge. It is possible that in the past that it has been moved. You can look through the hole and see the Merry Maidens stone circle.