Talk:Mên-an-Tol

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Dropdown box error[edit]

In the dropdown box, here, the Cornwall Wikiproject one, there is a link that is supposed to go to suggestions for standard headings. Unfortunately, the link is red and goes to nothing at all. I expect to edit this Men an Tol article at some point, and I would like to follow the Cornwall standard structure. So, if someone could fix the link, or at least put a working version of it on the talk page here, it would be appreciated. (Hopefully, someone will see this talk page.) Anyway, thank you. Zeno Izen 01:47, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Alignments[edit]

I have added the sentences about the alignment between this site, Boscawen-un, and the church at St. Buryan. This is easily verifiable with Google Earth.--Carfax6 22:32, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

This is original research and to be usable you need to find an original printed source etc. to which you can make a reference or citation.Rosser 16:52, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It appears,from maps,that this is aligned with midwinter sunrise & midsummer sunset,I can find nothing to say what it is. AptitudeDesign (talk) 06:40, 31 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

After sitting on the page for 6 years, I've removed the speculation about the supposed alignment "between this site, Boscawen-un, and the church at St. Buryan." As mentioned on Talk:Boscawen-Un it's easy to get a ruler and make all sorts of random alignments, especially when an area (like this one) is full of prehistoric sites. As for this suggestion that the Mên-an-Tol is "aligned with midwinter sunrise & midsummer sunset" note that there is evidence that the site has been heavily altered, so such an alignment (if it exists) is also probably just random chance. Pasicles (talk) 19:39, 9 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Etymology?[edit]

Can anyone add a note about what Mên-an-Tol means? I assume the Tol is of the same root as dol- in dolmen, but perhaps I'm off the mark? Cheers -- Erik Anderson 67.182.137.135 (talk) 05:09, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Mên(Stone)-an(the)-Tol(Hole) 81.158.79.45 (talk) 03:05, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Coordinate error[edit]

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Co-ordinates.....why are 90% of the locations wrong on wiki ?

—94.174.228.205 (talk) 19:45, 10 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Better now? The coordinates weren't that far off, and fewer coordinates on Wikipedia would be wrong if there were more folk like you pointing out the errors. Deor (talk) 21:47, 10 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

terrible[edit]

This article is awful. It contains no references and the grammar is terrible. It's hard to even read the sentences. Who wrote this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.119.151.233 (talk) 08:33, 15 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A page like that is what usually happens when an article is built up from little bits of random pieces people add over the years. Anyway, I've has a stab at improving the article, so it might be more coherent now. Pasicles (talk) 19:39, 9 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Men an tol and menhir[edit]

Generally, as ItsACityOfApes understands standing stones, the Menhir is a stone that is vertical and erect - thus has male attributions. The Men-an-tol is a stone with a hole in the middle - thus female attributions. There are indeed Men-an-tol stones in New Hampshire and there is a tradition of the parents passing newborn babies through such stones. ItsACityOfApes (talk) 18:37, 27 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]