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Kenidjack Cairn Circle
Date Added: 29th Jun 2023
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2023
Kenidjack Cairn Circle submitted by Bladup on 16th Sep 2014. Kenidjack Cairn Circle in the early morning sun.
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Log Text: Big walk round the Botallack mines area, and despite being very tired when I get back to Botallack, I decide to go further south to have a look for this cairn circle. I'm still not convinced of its authenticity amoungst the mining ruins, but it’s a lovely spot. I get to sit and watch a nest of choughs up on top of one of the old engine houses, must be parents with about 4 offspring up there.
Kenidjack Cliff Castle
Date Added: 29th Jun 2023
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2023
Kenidjack Cliff Castle submitted by melinki on 9th Dec 2008. Kenidjack Cliff Castle
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Log Text: Walking back to Botallack after visiting the circle, I make sure I have a look to the headland, with its traces of defensive ramparts.
Wendron South
Date Added: 12th Jul 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Wendron South submitted by TimPrevett on 1st Nov 2002. Wendron / Nine Maidens Stone Circles
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Parking in layby on the west side of the road opposite the footpath. The path was heavily rutted by cattle, indicating that if it was wet, this would be extremely boggy. Access is over a low point in the wall right next to the stones. Next time I visit I must read the guide books beforehand - two of the stones are actually set in the wall! One still in its original place, the other moved. The field was high with dock when I visited, and had to ...
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Log Text: Decide on a visit to the Wendron Nine Maidens on the way back to Penzance from Falmouth. Its been swelteringly hot and sunny all day, but just as I was getting up the hill to the site, it was all covered in a mist blowing down from the north. Easily found are 4 evenly spaced stones in the southern field, and one extra incorporated in the hedge at the place where it is easy to get over.
Lanyon Quoit
Date Added: 13th Jul 2023
Site Type: Portal Tomb
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Lanyon Quoit submitted by Bladup on 24th Dec 2022. Lanyon Quoit after Sunset on the Winter Solstice 2022
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Log Text: It had been swelteringly hot and sunny all day on the southern coast, but there had been a cool sea mist blowing across all day from the north coast. Despite it being very foggy, I decide on an evening visit Madron Well, and anyway, it all adds to the atmosphere. Leaving Madron well, I drive north perhaps to Men-an-Tol but the fog up here is even thicker. I give up with that idea and just park to visit Lanyon Quoit, where I eat my pasty in the cold damp fog blowing across the moor!
Rospletha cross
Date Added: 14th Jul 2023
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 3
Rospletha cross submitted by Bladup on 28th May 2017. Rospletha cross with the top of St Levan's church in the background on the left.
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Log Text: A day walking and exploring the coast between Porthcurno and Gwennap Head. Park at Porthcurno, and initially head inland then up onto the fields to pass Rospletha cross. It’s a nice thing, but rather overgrown at the moment.
Churchyard Cross St Levan
Date Added: 14th Jul 2023
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Churchyard Cross St Levan submitted by JimChampion on 29th Aug 2008. On the right, the tall churchyard cross; beyond and to the left the split St Levan Stone. I have read suggestions that the stone represents the female form and the cross represents the male form, or that the proximity of the Christian cross neutralises the pagan influence of the stone.
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Log Text: Onwards to St Levan's church, and have a good look around the interesting churchyard, with several old crosses and cross heads to be seen here. Dropping down from the fields into St Levan's church, there is a really interesting stone entrance to the churchyard, with a coffin shaped stone surrounded by what appear to be granite seats, and a round crosshead. The tall St Levan's cross is positioned in the churchyard outside the church entrance, and near to the split St Levan's stone. The more interesting western face was in deep shadow, and did not come out well in my pictures.
Wendron North
Date Added: 13th Jul 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Wendron North submitted by hamish on 6th Jul 2006. This is the only Stone left of this Circle. I had a search but couldnt find any more.
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Log Text: Now home, I remember being here before 20 years ago and seeing the two stones in the wall nearer to the house, but I didn't look in the right place this time, but it was rather overgrown. However, at the far side of the northern field is a stone standing proud of the wall. A closer look and it can be seen to be a stander, just beside the wall which curves around beside it, like they often do down here. This suggests to me that it has always been here, so not as I originally thought a moved stone from one of the circles, but more likely an outlier. I remember seeing this and thinking just the same all those years ago. There are also two likely candidates now making the gateposts to the field over the road.
St Levan's Stone
Date Added: 14th Jul 2023
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
St Levan's Stone submitted by enkidu41 on 16th Nov 2004. View from the south showing the narrowness of the gap and the matching contour lines of each half of the stone.
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Log Text: At St Levan's church, have a good look around the churchyard, with the split St Levan's stone in pride of place. The split is not wide enough to get a comfortable sit down, let alone to ride a loaded packhorse through, so the world is safe for the while.
Madron Well
Date Added: 13th Jul 2023
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Madron Well submitted by Bladup on 9th Aug 2016. The elemental Madron Well.
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Log Text: Despite it being very foggy, I decide I have to visit Madron Well, and anyway, it all adds to the atmosphere. When I get to the watery bit by the path, there is not so much tat hanging in the trees as I was expecting, and most of what there is is either real strips of cloth or floral offerings. Despite having a bad foot, and only wearing sandals, I decide I want to try and find the proper well, but soon get beaten with the marshy conditions and my unsteady legs. With nothing to hold on to, at one point I slip, try to adjust my footing onto a duckboard, but that then moves under me and I am down on my ass in the mud and water. Oh well, make the most of it and douse my bad toe in the water. Has to be said that after more than 3 months of not healing, the scar started to turn into a proper scab after this, and was properly healing by the end of the week.
Carn Lês Boel
Date Added: 17th Jul 2023
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 14th Jun 2023
Carn Lês Boel submitted by JimChampion on 29th Aug 2008. August 2007. View across Mill Bay towards the Carn Lês Boel headland. The shallow inner ditch and bank are quite clearly highlighted by the low evening sunlight - look just above the shadowy chasm. There is a narrower, fainter outer ditch that reaches to the top left of the chasm - possibly an unfinished outer defence.
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Log Text: Walk from St Levan along the coast path, through Porthgwarra and out to Gwennap Head. Keep going right round to Carn Barra where I stop for my pasty, overlooking Zawn Kellys to Carn Lês Boel and Lands End. I spend ages watching the flocks of seabirds on the sea, no doubt all above shoals of fish, fulmars soaring around in the coves and their nests on the cliffs, and lots of choughs busying themselves between feeding on the clifftops and taking food to their nests on the cliffs. Its great to see the choughs back here again. Fabulous.
St Levan's Well
Date Added: 17th Jul 2023
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
St Levan's Well submitted by enkidu41 on 16th Nov 2004. The well from the south.
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Log Text: After lunch I head back to Porthgwarra for a drink at the café, then on around the cliffs to Porth Chapel, where St Levan's well sits prominently above the beach. This used to be the way down past the chapel, but the path is falling down into the sea, so is no longer the through route. There is a little chapel building beside the little well, with water in it even after a hot dry month. I head round and then down to Porth Chapel beach, where I clearly remember having heatstroke back in the 1960s when I was about 7. I still remember that hurt and my brainfog, in my red hat with my plastic boat in the rock pool fed by the stream. Its still there, exactly as I remember it, despite having never been back since then. Up above the beach can be seen the remains of the chapel, which has recently been stabilised and excavated, with a little exhibition in St Levan's church. Its not easy to get down onto this beautiful beach, having to clamber down the cliffs. Quite how we did this all those years ago as a family with all the stuff we would have taken is beyond me!
Treryn Dinas
Date Added: 17th Jul 2023
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Treryn Dinas submitted by Bladup on 22nd Apr 2014. Treryn Dinas from Percella Point.
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Log Text: Time is getting on, although not necessarily as much as I thought it was, as things are playing tricks on me and others, with my phone regularly switching hours, presumably picking up its signal from French sources better than there is round here. It not only confuses the time, but screws up the labelling of my photos! Once back to Porthcurno, I have an ice cream and decide not to walk on, but drive to the Logan Rock Inn for a pint. After this I feel I can carry on, so walk back to the cliffs for a look at the most beautiful Pedn Vounder beach and out onto Treryn Dinas. Again there are several choughs noisily going about their business, and this time I get a reasonable picture of a couple. No chance I can get up to the old logan rock that I remember climbing up to with my Grampy back in the 1960's! What a fabulous day.
St Ives Head Fort
Date Added: 30th Jul 2023
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
St Ives Head Fort submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Jul 2023. St Ives Head seen across Porthmeor beach
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Log Text: A day visit to St Ives, which I start with a walk around Clodgy point and then back into St Ives town, making a full walk around the coastline to the harbour, passing over and around all of the fort headland.
Trevega Cross
Date Added: 30th Jul 2023
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Trevega Cross submitted by hamish on 27th Mar 2007. This nice little cross sits on the side of the path leading to the church.
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Log Text: After a day at St Ives, I go to Zennor to pay my respects to the Mermaid. Whilst at the church, I have a look at the various ancient crosses in and around the churchyard, and Borlase's grave. How fabulous is that mermaid chair.
Zennor Churchyard Crosses
Date Added: 30th Jul 2023
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Zennor Churchyard Crosses submitted by theCaptain on 18th Dec 2012. In the churchyard is the grave of John Borlase, the legendary Antiquarian.
Two ancient crossheads are are mounted on the grave.
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Log Text: After a day at St Ives, I go to Zennor to pay my respects to the Mermaid. Whilst at the church, I have a look at the various ancient crosses in and around the churchyard, and Borlase's grave. How fabulous is that mermaid chair.
Treveglos, Zennor
Date Added: 30th Jul 2023
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Treveglos, Zennor submitted by maengurta on 2nd Jul 2007. Stone row in Zennor aligned on Sperris hill.
Access by footpath leading to giants rock in the field immediately after the end of the path. Look for the southern terminal stone now serving as a gatepost 8.5ft high. The two other remaining stones stand in the next field to the north, one in a field boundary wall.
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Log Text: I found the large gatepost in the corner of the field, but nothing obvious nearby. The fields and walls here are full of large stones, and what is a standing stone, and what is a natural feature is very hard to tell. Not helped by a lot of growth around the field boundaries. I'm certainly not convinced of a row. Perhaps I was looking in all the wrong fields
Giant's Rock, Zennor
Date Added: 30th Jul 2023
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2023. My rating: Access 3
Giant's Rock, Zennor submitted by Bladup on 28th May 2017. The Giant's Rock.
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Log Text: Having found myself in the field adjacent to that in which the Giant's Stone is marked, I have a look and can see it over the hedge. However its all very overgrown and I cannot get in to have a proper look
St Mary's Cross
Date Added: 2nd Aug 2023
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2023. My rating: Access 4
St Mary's Cross submitted by Bladup on 12th Jan 2017. St Mary's Cross.
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Log Text: A strange looking stone stump in the churchyard at Penzance. All I could really make out is a couple of carved figures on it, until I realised that the cross arms were broken off.
Penzance Market Cross
Date Added: 2nd Aug 2023
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2023. My rating: Access 4
Penzance Market Cross submitted by Stonefly on 5th Aug 2011. The south-facing side.
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Log Text: I took a walk round some of the splendid Penzance gardens, and had a proper look at the lovely old market cross, nowadays just outside the café.
Trippet Stones
Date Added: 24th Aug 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Aug 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Trippet Stones submitted by thecaptain on 25th Oct 2008. Despite the fact that I have visited the Trippet Stones many times over the years, this is the first time I have been able to take some decent pictures of the stones in the lovely golden setting sunshine.
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Log Text: Heading down to Padstow, I make a stop at the Trippet Stones. It is nice to see that they now seem a lot tidier and more looked after than my last few visits, where thay were getting all chewed up with 4wd vehicle tracks all over the top of them.