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Small but iconic megalithic monument on the moorland of West Penwith in Cornwall, England — a holed stone roughly 1.3 m tall flanked by two upright menhirs, plus additional stones nearby that may once have formed a stone circle. Conventional dating places the monument in the Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (c. 3500-1500 BCE). The holed stone is the focus of long-standing folk-healing tradition — children and adults are passed through the hole for healing. Archaeoastronomers have proposed solar and lunar alignments through the aperture. Hugh Newman covers the site in his Cornwall megalithic surveys.

50.1572°, -5.6047°

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Mên-an-Tol | Megalithic Anomalies and Giant Lore in Ancient Cornwall | MegalithomaniaMên-an-Tol | Megalithic Anomalies and Giant Lore in Ancient Cornwall | MegalithomaniaHugh Newman / Megalithomania

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