Tolmen St. Mary’s Scilly. From the Druidical Antiquities Plate.details

Tolmen St. Mary’s Scilly. From the Druidical Antiquities Plate.

Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested
Please do not redistribute without permission, since running this site is expensive.

This Tolmen Stone on St Mary’s, the largest of the the Isles of Scilly, was destroyed in 1869 by explosives, so that the granite underneath it could be quarried.

An account of the unfortunate incident, which incident is said to have inspired the creation of the Ancient Monuments Act and the formation the following year of The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.

This is one item from a full-page plate, Druidical Antiquities

druids, ruins, megaliths

St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, England

00p135-Druidical-Antiquities-07-q75-263x200.jpg

1200 dots per inch