The giant erratic rests left of centre, at the top of the rocky slope. Most people walk straight past it without seeing it, since it lies a little way off the coastal footpath.
I was talking to somebody the other day about Ramsey Sound, and was reminded of the presence there of one of the most spectacular giant erratics in western Britain, right up on the clifftop at an altitude of c 25 m. The location is SM 715235, and a little to the north of the old copper mine shaft shown on the OS maps. On the satellite images you can spot the erratic because of the substantial shadow that it casts.
I measured the erratic many years ago, as approx 4.2m x 2.4m x 2m, which would give it a weight of around 60 tonnes. That's a big erratic.........
Where has it come from? Most likely Ramsey Island, but I need to check that out with the geologists.
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Hope you find a friendly geologist or two to enable accurate provenancing. Never heard of it myself!
No problem on that score, Tony....
The Neolithic settlement Clegyr - Boia is only a short distance from yon giant erratic to its north-east......I wonder what those local inhabitants made of the big boulder near the dangerous cliff? In future times, when money is tight, will we see Neil Oliver walking backwards to camera explaining it all......even as he descends?
Of course, even later on in future times, Sir Tony Robinson will inevitably be rushing around somewhere near the Old Ruin On the Plain, explaining to us a very similar encounter between Neolithic folk thereabouts and some inexplicable exotic boulders....
Yes, the Boulder Cult was thriving in the Neolithic. The bigger your boulder, the greater your status. But, as Dafydd, the old Stone Age philosopher, said during one of his trances, size isn't everything.......
Sheffield Wednesday, when managed by Jack Charlton, had a goalkeeper named Bob Bolder who played 200 times, and went on to be part of the Liverpool squad who won the European Cup in 1984.Bob Bolder started his career with Dover, famous for its white cliffs (not sure whether it also has erratics).
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