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Chysauster
Date Added: 6th Aug 2022
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Chysauster submitted by cromagnonman on 2nd Mar 2011. Part of Chysauster taken at sunrise. Spring 2011
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Log Text: Day down to Penwith and start with a visit to Chysauster, which is looking magnificent on this bluesky morning, I just love it with all the wildflowers out. A lot of tidying work has been done around most of the houses, and some informative signs installed, along with a raised viewing area allowing a vision of the whole site. So fabulous to see this wonderful ancient village again.
Boscawen Un
Date Added: 7th Aug 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Boscawen Un submitted by BazCross on 30th Mar 2012. Boscawen Un photographed March 2012.
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Log Text: Go to Boscawen-Un stone circle to eat my crab sandwich. It is looking really magnificent in the sun, with all the wildflowers and I have it all to myself. Walking back to the car later there was a minibus full of people coming to visit, so that was timed just right.
Chapel Carn Brea Tomb
Date Added: 8th Aug 2022
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Chapel Carn Brea Tomb submitted by enkidu41 on 29th Aug 2004.
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Log Text: As it is such a lovely afternoon, I decided to climb Chapel Carn Brea hill with its cairns, and a fabulous view all the way around, the Isles of Scilly very clear out in the distance. The main hilltop cairn is very large, but very difficult to make anything out properly as it has been very mutilated. Could it once have been a bit like Carn Gloose, with a large internal cairn surrounded by a ring, with at least one chamber?
Chapel Carn Brea Cairns
Date Added: 8th Aug 2022
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Chapel Carn Brea Cairns submitted by Bladup on 19th Nov 2013. Stones of the kerb cairn at SW 38372806. It is 5.5m in diameter and is about 1.5m high on the lower, west side and 0.5m high on the east. The interior is earth filled to within 0.2m of the top of the inner kerb, of which three upright slabs can be detected. Five stones of the outer kerb can be seen.
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Log Text: As it is such a lovely afternoon, I decided to climb Chapel Carn Brea hill with its cairns, and a fabulous view all the way around, the Isles of Scilly very clear out in the distance. Apart from the large hilltop cairn, there are clearly a couple of other cairns up here. First is an elongated stone structure on the southern hilltop, quite near to the modern firebeacon. It appears to have a kerb structure around a large chamber at the southern end. Secondly is an obvious cairn to the northwest of the hilltop, just downslope of the summit. It seems to have been a round cairn with internal chamber, which has been dug into in the past.
Chapel Euny Well 2
Date Added: 9th Aug 2022
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Chapel Euny Well 2 submitted by AngieLake on 5th Jul 2019. The dappled sunlight made the site even more inviting.
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Log Text: From Boscawen-Un stone circle I move on to Carn Euny, walking up to the village via an old well site, in the very dark shade below some trees.
Carn Euny Village
Date Added: 9th Aug 2022
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
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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Log Text: I move on to Carn Euny village with its fantastic fogou, which has now had the round chamber covered, really magical. The remains of the village courtyard houses do not match up to the wonders of Chysauster, but this is more than made up for by the magic of the fogou.
Carn Euny Fogou
Date Added: 11th Aug 2022
Site Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Carn Euny Fogou submitted by AngieLake on 2nd Jan 2005. This shot shows the huge but low (4.5ft - 1.4m) SE-facing doorway of the Carn Euny 'Beehive Hut' underground chamber, with its own short passage leading into the fogou passage which runs SW/NE, (but snaking here with a flatter, more W/E run), just outside the doorway. It is thought that the Beehive Hut (chamber) was the first structure on this site, so that originally the eastern wall of the fogou passage would not have obstructed the view. It is possible that the sun was meant to shine down t...
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Log Text: I move on to Carn Euny village with its fantastic fogou, which has now had the round chamber covered, really magical. The remains of the village courtyard houses do not match up to the wonders of Chysauster, but this is more than made up for by the magic of the fogou.
Chun Castle
Date Added: 6th Sep 2022
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Chun Castle submitted by h_fenton on 28th Feb 2011. An almost vertical view of Chûn Castle, this photo is composed of 45 Kite Aerial photograph s that have been stitched together using Microsoft ICE, I think this image is slightly warped but it does give a good overview of Chûn Castle.
The bottom of the photograph is roughly north.
10 April 2010
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Log Text: After struggling to find somewhere to eat, I really want to see Chun Quoit and Castle at sundown, so with a rapid drive, being guided by another force, I get to the bottom of the hill already in full shadow. Its almost 30 years since I last climbed the hill to visit the Chûn sites. A rapid walk up to the top, its a long way, and I get to the quoit just as it is in the golden glow of the sunset, but perhaps now past its best. Lots of photos, including the sun setting through the stones, then a quick look around the wonderful castle, and back down the hill to the car. Easy drive home with a fabulous full strawberry moon rising, and I am back to the cottage just before 11:00.
Brown Willy Barrow Cemetery
Date Added: 24th Jul 2022
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Brown Willy Barrow Cemetery submitted by Bladup on 13th Feb 2014. Brown Willy. This view is taken from near the summit cairn and is looking south towards the other cairn.
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Log Text: Up to the top of Brown Willy, where there is a large cairn, with trig point and modern rearrangements on the northern top, where I eat my pasty. Walk south along the ridgetop, and there is a really splendid cairn at the southern top.
St Teath Cross
Date Added: 7th Jul 2022
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
St Teath Cross submitted by TheCaptain on 7th Jul 2022. Lovely tall cross in the churchyard at St Teath.
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Log Text: Lovely tall cross in the churchyard at St Teath, not far from the White Hart. Ambience somewhat spoiled by all the signs below it.
Showery Tor Ring Cairn
Date Added: 24th Jul 2022
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Showery Tor Ring Cairn submitted by Bladup on 21st Jul 2015. Showery Tor Ring Cairn.
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Log Text: A day to climb up Roughtor and Brown Willy. Start off up to Showery Tor with its splendid ring cairn around the cheesewring on top.
Brown Willy Cairn S
Date Added: 24th Jul 2022
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 2
Brown Willy Cairn S submitted by TheCaptain on 24th Jul 2022. On a lesser summit at the southern end of the ridgetop is a large round cairn
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Log Text: Walk south along the Brown Willy ridgetop, and there is a really splendid cairn at the southern top.
Fernacre Outlier
Date Added: 24th Jul 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Fernacre Outlier submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Mar 2005. Fernacre Stone Circle.
Radially outwards from the large triangular stone at a distance of about 50 metres, is a pink granite stone, quite possibly an outlier of some kind.
View looking west towards Louden Hill, into the sun and haze.
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Log Text: Down from Brown Willy, I walk around the western end of Roughtor, firstly visiting Fernacre stone circle with its outlier.
Fernacre
Date Added: 24th Jul 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Fernacre submitted by Andy B on 8th Oct 2003.
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Log Text: Walking around Fernacre stone circle today I counted 53 stones, plus the outlier. There are no doubt more under the grassy tufts. Its splendid here today, although the overcast sky makes it bad for photos
Roughtor South
Date Added: 24th Jul 2022
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Roughtor South submitted by TheCaptain on 11th Apr 2005. A hut circle at the Roughtor South village. Many of the buildings here seem to be complex double or treble roomed dwellings.
View looking north towards Roughtor itself.
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Log Text: North of the stone circle, and south of the bulk of Roughtor are the remains of a large and complex settlement
Roughtor north
Date Added: 24th Jul 2022
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Roughtor north submitted by bec-zog on 26th Mar 2004. ROUGH TOR SX141815
Prehistoric Bronze Age landscape: well preserved group of hut circles, cairns, burial chambers & associated structures.
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Log Text: To the northwest of the bulk of Roughtor is a very large and strung out settlement, and cairns.
Roughtor Summit Cairns
Date Added: 15th Mar 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Roughtor Summit Cairns submitted by TheCaptain on 11th Jul 2022. Showing the cairn structure around the natural outcrops at the summit of Roughtor
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Log Text: Remains of cairns created round some natural outcrops within the settlement on the top of Roughtor, near to the memorials.
Constantine Island
Date Added: 7th Jul 2022
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
Constantine Island submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Jun 2022. Remnants of the barrow on the seaward side of the islet
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Log Text: A long walk round Trevose Head starting at Constantine. I cross Constantine Beach, and climb up for a look on the islet between Constantine and Booby's beaches. Is this remains of a cairn? Moving on, I drop down into Booby's Bay, hoping to see the remnants of the S.V. Carl shipwreck, but the sands have covered most of it up again.
Harlyn Bay
Date Added: 7th Jul 2022
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2022
Harlyn Bay submitted by mikeaitch on 10th Jul 2009. Harlyn Bay is my favorite place to be in the world, a view which appears to have been shared by our ancestors since ancient times.
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Log Text: Walk all the way around the coast to Harlyn, where I think I pass the ancient burial grounds. Now desperate for a pint I am expecting to find the pub once up off the beach by the bridge. I found no signs of what I remember as a little museum with remains, or indeed, more annoyingly at the time after a long hot walk, the pub, as everything is all being rebuilt into lots of expensive appartments, so a good thing I did carry a pasty, but I really could haver done with a pint. Very tempting to gatecrash in on a large wedding event at marquees in the fields nearby!
Goodaver
Date Added: 27th Jun 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Couldn't find on 11th Jun 2022
Goodaver submitted by cazzyjane on 6th Dec 2014. Goodaver Stone Circle, Bodmin Moor.
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Log Text: On my way down to Wadebridge today, I didn't have time for the long walk through the forest, but thought I'd try the direct ways from the Bolventor - St Cleer road down the Fowey valley. Both these ways I have seen described. Plan A. up the curvy track at Trezibbet, which is clearly seen from the raad in the valley. I asked somebody tending lambs in the barns at the bottom, and got a friendly but definite no. No way through. Private land. Plan A.2. Up either track from Goodaver, one of which shows to be a path on my OutdoorActive routeplanner. All gates and ways across the river locked. Asked a man tending a tractor. A less friendly, No. Private. So, maybe another time with half a day spare to try the forest way from the north.