Boscawen-Un

Boscawen-Un

Boscawen-Un is a Bronze age stone circle close to St Buryan in Cornwall, UK.

It consists of 19 upright stones in an ellipse with diameters 24.9m and 21.9m, with another, leaning, stone just south of the centre. There is a west-facing gap in the circle, which may have formed an entrance.

The leaning stone aligns exactly with the centre stone at the Mên-an-Tol and the church at nearby St Buryan. While this may conceivably be coincidental, the precision of the alignment suggests an intentional positioning of the three structures in relation to each other.


=Cornish Gorseth=

The Gorseth Kernow was inaugurated here in 1928. An old Welsh triad mentions one of the three principal "gorseddau" of the Island of Britain as "Beisgawen in Dumnonia", which was taken to refer to Boscawen-un by the Gorseth's founders.

It is located at gbmapping|SW412274

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ee also

Other prehistoric stone circles in the Penwith region
* The Merry Maidens
* Tregeseal East - also known as the Tregeseal Dancing Stones
* Boskednan - also known as the Nine Maidens of Boskednan

References

* cite book
last = Burl
first = Aubrey
authorlink = Aubrey Burl
title = The stone circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany
publisher = Yale University Press
date = 2000
pages = Chapter 9
id = ISBN 0-300-08347-5
* cite book
last = Cope
first = Julian
authorlink = Julian Cope
title =
publisher = HarperCollins
date = 1998
pages = p. 164
id = ISBN 0-7225-3599-6
* cite book
last = Weatherhill
first = Craig
authorlink = Craig Weatherhill
title = Cornovia: Ancient sites of Cornwall and Scilly
publisher = Cornwall Books
date = 2000
id = ISBN 1-871060-31-1
* cite book
last = Weatherhill
first = Craig
authorlink = Craig Weatherhill
title = Cornish Place Names & Language
publisher = Sigma Leisure
date = 1995
id = ISBN 1-85058-462-1

External links

* [http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=22 Boscawen Un stone circle] site page on [http://www.megalithic.co.uk/ The Megalithic Portal]
* [http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/229 Boscawen Un stone circle] site page on [http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/ The Modern Antiquarian]


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