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Boskednan stone circle
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th Oct 2004
Boskednan stone circle submitted by AngieLake on 15th Oct 2004. The portals at Boskednan as they appeared in March 2004, before the huge stone on the left of picture was re-erected. Carn Galva, which now seems to be framed by these stones, is visible on the right horizon. Between the tall standing stone and the rocky outcrop of Carn Galva, can just be seen the pointed stones of the 'destroyed barrow' (as described by Ian McNeil Cooke in his excellent book "Mermaid to Merrymaid - Journey to the Stones").
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Boskednan A
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th Oct 2004
Boskednan A submitted by AngieLake on 15th Oct 2004. This eye-catching stone is in what first appears to be a small circle, near the footpath to Boskednan from Men an Tol. According to the OS map (Explorer 102) it is a 'Tumuli', (near "Carn Galver"). It is on the higher ground (its own little ridge - 227m), and seems to point to the right of Carn Galva, on the left of picture, and more towards the knobby outcrop of granite in the right distance. (The only thing possible on the map is "Little Galver", or further north, "Hannibal's Carn"). Either ...
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St Neot Crosses
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 19th Oct 2004
St Neot Crosses submitted by AngieLake on 19th Oct 2004. Two of the early crosses in the churchyard
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St Neot's Well (St Neot)
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 19th Oct 2004
St Neot's Well (St Neot) submitted by AngieLake on 19th Oct 2004. This pic shows the rear right of the inside of St Neot Holy Well, with the offerings, and the worn door with its lovely old catch. (I should say that we found this door fastened, and made sure it was securely shut before we left.)"
This is what the church guide book has to say:
"The Holy Well
The holy well is some three hundred yards from the church. It stands near the St Neot river in a level meadow backed by a steep bank planted with trees. One reaches it by turning in beside the Carlyon...
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King Doniert's Stone
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 19th Oct 2004
King Doniert's Stone submitted by AngieLake on 19th Oct 2004. In this picture, the interlaced engraving on the side of the tallest stone can be seen more clearly. Granite is very hard stone to carve, so it must have taken a long time to make those patterns. The inscription about King Doniert is on the shaded side of the shorter stone in the foreground.
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St Cleer's Well
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 20th Oct 2004
St Cleer's Well submitted by AngieLake on 20th Oct 2004. This is a close-up of the monk-like figure in the niche on the front wall of the well-house. I couldn't help noticing the phallic shape of the granite point on the roof, though maybe it was just the angle! Perhaps a relic of more Pagan times.
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Altarnun Cross
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 21st Oct 2004
Altarnun Cross submitted by AngieLake on 21st Oct 2004. A view of the lovely old 'Celtic' cross in St Nonna's churchyard at Altarnun (altar of St Non, or Nonna) near Bodmin Moor. (Also known as 'the cathedral of the moor'). In the church leaflet we read: "By the church gate is to be found a very fine celtic cross. As well as being a thing of beauty it is also a great age, probably dating back to the 6th century, the time of St Nonna herself. For one thousand four hundred years, as this cross has stood, people have worshipped God in the churches b...
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Cape Cornwall
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 29th Oct 2004
Cape Cornwall submitted by AngieLake on 29th Oct 2004.
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Boscawen Un
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 31st Oct 2004
Boscawen Un submitted by AngieLake on 31st Oct 2004. Boscawen Un (or 'Boscanoon', as the local man called it), was looking lovely in March 2004, with no ferns to mar the view of the stones. This pic was cobbled together from two separate ones, so wouldn't win any prizes. However, it does give an overview of the site, showing the late afternoon shadow cast by the giant gnomon in the (off) centre. A few minutes later, and a few hundred yards between here and the main road, I discovered the scarily spooky Creeg Tol.
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Carn Euny Village
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 31st Oct 2004
Carn Euny Village submitted by AngieLake on 31st Oct 2004. This view over the Carn Euny Settlement was taken in two shots, which are cobbled together to give an idea of how it looked in March 2004. Bec-Zog's pic is similar to this.
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Carn Gluze
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 31st Oct 2004
Carn Gluze submitted by AngieLake on 31st Oct 2004. Shot of the landward side of Ballowall Barrow (Carn Gluze) taken from the top of the outside 'collar' wall. It shows the depth and narrowness of the gap between the outer and inner cairn. (I have good footage of this area after walking right around the circular 'passage' with my camcorder). The view of the Cornish coast here is spectacular, with Sennen Cove in the distance.
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Carn Euny Fogou
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jan 2005
Carn Euny Fogou submitted by AngieLake on 2nd Jan 2005. The 'Beehive Hut' in Carn Euny's Fogou. The patch of sunshine through a grille (see Jim Champion's excellent arty picture of 1.1.05) is visible far right. This gives some daylight to what would otherwise be quite an eerie place. It is believed to have been the first structure built on this site, and the fogou was created later. Because of this, it is thought that the SE-facing doorway of this chamber once allowed the midwinter rising sun to shine through it an hour or so after dawn, thus ill...
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Men-An-Tol
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Holed Stone
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jan 2005
Men-An-Tol submitted by AngieLake on 2nd Jan 2005. Sunset on 9th March 2004, through the intriguing lifebelt-shaped stone at Men an Tol. As a guide to the direction, later in the month, at Spring Equinox, 21st March, the sun would set due west.
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Men-an-tol barrow
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jan 2005
Men-An-Tol submitted by AngieLake on 2nd Jan 2005. Sunset on 9th March 2004, through the intriguing lifebelt-shaped stone at Men an Tol. As a guide to the direction, later in the month, at Spring Equinox, 21st March, the sun would set due west.
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Tolvan
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Holed Stone
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jun 2005
Tolvan submitted by AngieLake on 5th Jun 2005. The view through the hole in the Tolvan Stone at Tolvan Cross near Gweek. The sun shines through this one - orientated to approx WNW - on 9th June every year. This may not mean anything, as it was apparently moved to this site, in 1847, from the field to its east, where it possibly formed the entrance to a burial chamber. See site page for further details.
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King Arthur's Hall
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jul 2005
King Arthur's Hall submitted by AngieLake on 15th Jul 2005.
Blessed by lovely weather, my visit to this strange site was enhanced by the cloud of fluffy white bog cotton dancing in the breeze. This view looks diagonally back towards the entrance gate, with Roughtor behind me in the distance, at 38degs from the largest pointed stone near to the camera. Note the way the two large pointed stones stick up on the 'west' side of the site. The tallest of these aligns at 109degs with Roughtor. It struck me how much the three of them (with a shorter one bet...
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St Eval Church Stones
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jul 2005
St Eval Church Stones submitted by AngieLake on 18th Jul 2005. Another stone in the perimeter wall at St Eval in Cornwall. This one is approximately south of the south main door of the church. There are no less than six Green Men bosses on the ceiling inside the church. It is very atmospheric inside: you can't help but remember those brave young men who fought for our country in WW2.
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Menevegar Menhir
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jul 2005
Menevegar Menhir submitted by AngieLake on 18th Jul 2005. *The Longstone* plaque fixed on the side of this lovely stone, now almost hidden in the bushes, graces a central green at an old-persons' bungalow complex on the left of St Dennis Road as you leave the centre of the village of Roche.
Reads:*The Longstone. This stone, erected during the Bronze Age on the Longstone Downs, was removed to this site in August 1970*
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St Dennis Hill Fort
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2005
St Dennis Hill Fort submitted by AngieLake on 19th Jul 2005. The interior of St Dennis Dinas, or Dynas, meaning Hill fort. Today it is the churchyard of St Dennis church. Here the path leads off to a break in the west side of the rugged wall where two old well-worn steps lead into the area. Craig Weatherall, in his book Cornovia, tells us that the line of the inner bank of the fort, which may have been stone-built, is followed by the current churchyard wall. It was the most atmospheric churchyard I'd ever had the pleasure to visit, and was enhanced by...
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St Dennis Churchyard Cross
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2005
St Dennis Churchyard Cross submitted by AngieLake on 19th Jul 2005. This shot shows the lovely naive carving on the rear (cleaner side) of the St Dennis churchyard cross. Churchyard occupies area of ancient Iron Age hill fort.
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