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Boscawen-Un

Near St Buryan, Cornwall

A ring of granite with one white quartz stone and a leaning heart.

Boscawen-Un has 19 granite stones and one gleaming stone of white quartz. At its centre a tall pillar leans at a sharp angle, and nobody knows if it was set that way on purpose.

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When
Bronze Age
Where
50.0898, -5.6189
Group
Circles & monuments

Visiting

Free. Reached by a short footpath off the A30.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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