Fernacre
Fernacre is one of the largest stone circles in Cornwall . It is located near the ruins of Fernacre Farm, first mentioned in 1327, west of the De Lank River and south of Rough Tor, about 2.0 km northeast of St. Breward on Bodmin Moor in England . Fernacre is at the beginning of a medieval road from Rough Tor to Garrow Tor.
The name is supposed to mean fern land, or derived from the old plural for fairy . The slightly oval stone circle measures 46.2 × 43.3 meters. It contains about 70 stones, three more have gone out. Almost 40 stones stand upright. They sank deep into the ground. The tallest stone is 1.3 meters high and the longest fallen stone measures 2.1 meters. Like Stannon , Fernacre is an example of a circle flattened on the north side (Alexander Thoms Type A). There is evidence to the southeast that the county had a rampart. It dates from the late Neolithic or the early Bronze Age .
literature
- Aubrey Burl: A guide to the stone circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany. Yale University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-300-11406-5 .
- Robin Payne: The Romance of the Stones. Alexander Associates, Fowey 1999, ISBN 1-899526-21-8 .
- Ian McNeil Cooke: Standing Stones of the Land's End. An inquiry into their function . Men-an-Tol Studio, Cornwall 1998, ISBN 0-9512371-9-5 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 35 '24 " N , 4 ° 37' 20.8" W.