Tresvennack stone pillars
The stone pillar of Tresvennack ( English Tresvennack Pillar ) is a menhir ( English Standing stone ). It stands south of Lower Drift in Sancreed in Cornwall in England .
The Tresvennack stone pillar is about 3.45 m high and stands on a lower ridge between two tributaries of the Lamorna River. The monolith drawn by Borlase (1848–1899) in the 19th century has a vertical crack.
The standing stone was first mentioned in 1848 when JNR Millet discovered two urns near the base. The larger one was deposited immediately east of the stone in a 0.9 m² pit covered with a stone. The collar urn ( English Collared-urn ) contained corpse burn and wood ash. The smaller urn was barrel-shaped with two handles. It contained a fine powdery substance and was located in a second pit 0.5 m northeast of the first. Both urns date from the Middle Bronze Age and are in the Penzance Museum.
The stone is registered as a Scheduled Monument .
The Drift Stones and the standing stones of Faughan, Kerris and Sheffield are nearby.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 44.7 " N , 5 ° 34 ′ 42.1" W.