Mên Scryfa, Cornish menhir.

I'm always fascinated with standing stones and how many of them have survived into the present.

Many didn't surbive, Jenny. Well, of course it's hard to destroy a menhir, but many went to form gate post, buildings blocks in farm buildings etc.

Roger,
Jean,
Larry,
Many thanks!

These solo standing stones don't look much, but you have to marvel at how long they've survived and wonder why they were put there in the first place. I'm guessing we'll never know for sure.

A lovely shot though Andy!

I think they have a charm all of their own which is partly to do with the mystery and partly to do with the fact that they are all different from each other!
Thanks Keith!

You have to wonder about the 'how' of these standing stones just as much as the 'why' .... fascinating.

They go deep into the ground, George.

It is amazing how long those stones have stood silently there. I don't know how to pronounce Cornish Celtic, even though I'm Welsh and I could speak it when at school, not now though.

Not many do, Jenny. The last native Cornish speakers died out in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and were to be found in the West Penwith area (towards Land's End as you would expect). But the language never completely died; it was kept alive by a few victorian antiquarians and linguists and in the past 50 years or so there has been a growing interest in teaching it and learning it again. It is thought that over 500 people can converse in Cornish as a second language.

I wonder how many people have stood looking at that stone and wondering!!

Quite a few. It's near a lane that also leads to Mên-an-Tol holed stone ( www.ipernity.com/doc/2247598/45334508/in/album/1036932 ) and Boskednan (Nine Maidens) stone circle (no photo, sorry!)

Obelix was here! :-)

LOL!!