Constantine Cornwall

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The Tolmen Stone

The Tolmen Stone, a massive egg shaped stone weighing 750 tons, that sat above the quarry at Maen, was a tourist attraction in its own right with people traveling from Falmouth and Penryn to see it. In 1869, during  the Feast Celebrations, this stone, some 33 feet long, 18 feet wide and 14ft 6 high, the size of two double decker buses side by side, was blown from its rest into the quarry beneath. Why we don’t know. Too dangerous to work the quarry face below it, it had more value in the cut stone and it could be used for who knows, but one thing is certain that within a month an act was passed in parliament to protect such wonderful natural ancient monuments from wanton destruction, you could say English Heritage started here in Constantine.