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6th Jul 2022  13:39  by CJO

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

Paths network through short grass between gorse. Large boulders to west. Suspect this is on a grassed over slab. No sign of witness rivets either.

One of these flat slabs if it is still there and OS simply couldn’t find it in a re-visit

6th Jul 2016  12:22  by peregrinus

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

Gps points to obvious small rock slab just E of the southernmost outcrop. No trace of bolt or remains or scar.p

6th Jul 2016  11:40  by dugswell2

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 7/10

A lovely spot none the less.

17th May 2016  13:50  by JonT

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 8/10

Wingletang Down is scattered with very fine granite outcrops. Boy’s Rock is not the biggest outcrop, but it earns a name on the Isles of Scilly 1:15,000 map published by Friendly Guides (the best walking map of Scilly). I looked for the bolt on a day trip to St Agnes, but I too couldn’t find any sign of it, so I’ve no reason to doubt the OS record that it was destroyed. There are two adjacent boulders – I’m not sure which is Boy’s Rock, or whether both collectively make up Boy’s Rock.

Boy’s Rock, approaching from Barnaby’s Lane ©JonT
Boy’s Rock (northern boulder) ©JonT
Boy’s Rock (southern boulder) ©JonT

13th Sep 2014  11:38  by jonglew

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

OS records this bolt destroyed July 1960. There are some interesting weather shaped granite blocks at this location; searched most if not all of them but no sign of a bolt.

23rd May 2013  15:37  by dal

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10

I could find no sign of the Bolt - therefore I will go with the OS Destroyed

1st Sep 2008  16:42  by Ant1974

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Destroyed  Score: 5/10