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Faldouet Dolmen
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Channel Islands and Isle of Man (Jersey)
Visited: Yes on 16th Sep 2006
Faldouet Dolmen submitted by AngieLake on 16th Sep 2006. Friend Pam Yates brought me back four photos of this site when she visited Jersey earlier in the summer.
This is the first, showing the entrance passage.
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Sandbach Crosses
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cheshire)
Visited: Yes on 27th Mar 2005
Sandbach Crosses submitted by AngieLake on 27th Mar 2005. This view shows the rear of the two market crosses at Sandbach.
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Creeg Tol
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Rock Outcrop
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Mar 2004
Creeg Tol submitted by AngieLake on 22nd Mar 2004. Creeg Tol - Barrow Hole"- (SW411277) a small, possibly modern circle (if old, would have maybe been a cairn circle). NW of Boscawen Un, just off the footpath on the way back to the main road layby- (Not towards farm!) . Tucked away amongst the bracken, below large rocks with unusually shaped basins ("The Giant's Footprints"). Boscawen Un is clearly seen from the tops of these towards the SE. The tallest stone is only about 2ft high, and there is a smallish white quartz stone at 260 deg.
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Men Scryfa
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 19th Aug 2004
Men Scryfa submitted by AngieLake on 19th Aug 2004. Angie at Men Scryfa - approx 2.30pm on 9th March 2004.
(I am 5'4" for comparison.) The carved Roman letters were reasonably clear then. In the distance is the amusingly-named 'Ding Dong' mine, and behind me, the wall bordering the lane between the stile-access to Men an Tol and the open moorland leading to Boskednan (Nine Maidens) circle. Because the lane can get very muddy in this area, the boots were very welcome!
All the fields around here are bordered with walls of stones that looked as...
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St John's Well (Morwenstow)
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 11th Oct 2004
St John's Well (Morwenstow) submitted by AngieLake on 11th Oct 2004. Lovely situation, tucked away in a leafy dell, on the edge of an orchard. Access signposted from lane. Just across the lane from the 'gated' end of the churchyard path at Morwenstow - famous poet-priest, Hawker's - church. (A level path runs through the churchyard, just above the entrance gate to the drive of the Vicarage. There is a plan of the area opposite the main gateway to the church, near the tearooms and carpark.) Approach down overgrown steps fringed by fronds of ferns.
Door of ...
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St Swithin's Well (Launcells)
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Oct 2004
St Swithin's Well (Launcells) submitted by AngieLake on 13th Oct 2004. St Swithin's Well, which reputedly never runs dry, tucked away close to the lane leading to Launcells Church. It's water, by tradition, was a salve for eye ailments
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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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