Chapel Downs Menhir, Isles of Scilly

Description

This carved stone was found on St Martin's by the Rev Lewis in the 1940s (location not recorded). It was rediscovered in a field wall on Chapel Down in 1988 and erected in its current position. It represents the face and upper torso of an anthropomorphic figure and is presumably broken off a larger stone that may once have stood upright upon the Down. It has been interpreted as a Romano-Celtic idol by Charles Thomas and Paul Ashbee - (text by Charles Johns)