The Bohelland Tragedy Site (unconfirmed marker)

UNCONFIRMED PHYSICAL FORM - worth someone visiting Bohelland, in the parish of Gluvias near Penryn, Cornwall, to establish whether an actual inscribed stone survives, or whether 'the Murder Stone' is a name for the site/legend rather than a specific object. Found tangentially while searching for other material - not via a Historic England listing. The underlying story is well documented: a contemporary 1618 pamphlet, 'Newes from Perin in Cornwall: Of A Most Bloody and un-exampled Murther', recorded a killing at Bohelland in which a son, returning wealthy from the Indies and not recognised by his own family, was murdered - in most retellings by his father, egged on by a cruel stepmother - for his money. The story follows the same folk pattern found in the Jacobean play 'A Yorkshire Tragedy' and inspired contemporary broadside ballads. Antiquarian S. Baring-Gould retold it in his 1909 book 'Cornish Characters and Strange Events', noting that by his time of writing only a roofless ruin remained at the site. It has more recently been revived as material for Cornish-language theatre.