Mystery
The Logan Rock
It moves for the pure. It moved for the Navy too.
See it clearly
- What's there
- Balanced granite boulder on a cliff headland
- Legend from
- 18th–19th-century belief
- Tone
- Light-hearted
Eighty tons of granite, balanced so finely a child could rock it. Then the Navy came.
The Logan Rock is a huge granite boulder balanced on a headland within the Iron Age cliff castle of Treryn Dinas, south of Treen. Robert Hunt records the old belief that the rock would move at the gentlest touch of someone pure, but stand fixed for a traitor, and that children rocked on it at certain seasons were cured of disease. On 8 April 1824 Lieutenant Goldsmith and his seamen pushed it off its perch to disprove the claim that it could not be moved. Locals, who lived off visitors to the rock, complained, and he was made to put it back. It still rocks, though less easily.