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Photo Pages: Boleigh - Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House) in England in Cornwall
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Submitted by enkidu41 on Tuesday, 16 November 2004 Page Views: 5843
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Re: Boleigh (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Sunday, 21 April 2002 | | Boleigh is a grand souterrain. It has a side chamber which can be entered if one is small enough to enter. There is also a carved warrior as sentry at the entrance. It is well worth the trip. To visit, one needs to make an appointment with the land owner. He is a grand gentleman who takes his stewardship of the land and the site very seriously. | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Boleigh (Score: 1)
by Bran on Monday, 02 September 2002
(User Info | Send a Message) | Boligh Fogou is one of the treasures of this part of Cornwall , but please do not call it a Souterain, FOUGOUS are unique to Cornwall and have no connection with Souterains at all .They are a ritual chamber not a defensive part of a settlement or store room.
I have been there many times and still cannot see any sign of the so called guardian carving at the enterance that is in use today, this is a modern myth that has only been disimated in the last couple of decades and is the old thing of finding what you are told to find if you look hard enough.
The entrance where the figure is supposeed to be is not the original entrance and was probably made sometime in recent centuarys by locals looking for the treasure that was always supposed to be burried in these underground chambers (though some of these Fogous were actualy built above ground,and there are still some in existance built into our massive stone hedges) | [ Reply to This ]
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by Anonymous on Wednesday, 14 March 2007 | | But... How do you know it was a ritual chamber? Do you know something the rest of us, including most of the scientific community, don’t? |
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by Anonymous on Sunday, 27 April 2008 | | I'm not the OP but it seems unlikely to have been for food storage - mainly because its usually wet in Fougous in the winter!!! Also the very small entrance - hardly the best design for loading / unloading. Defence? Maybe, it would have merits - the small entrance for example. But again I doubt it - why would you retreat into a hole with no way out? Of course it may have served many purposes - in the same way that any public building does in times of need. But regarding ceremonial usage - it does seem to be designed as such - sensory deprivation, allegorical relationship with the sub/unconscious and, well, the place feels powerful... |
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Re: Boleigh (Score: 1)
by ocifant on Saturday, 13 March 2004
(User Info | Send a Message) | | March 2004, the site is in new hands, and the new owner has not yet decided on an access policy, so is currently amenable to granting access by arrangement as previously. | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Boleigh (Score: 1)
by brianlavelle on Monday, 29 March 2010
(User Info | Send a Message) | March 2010, and a friend and I have spent a couple of days at Rosemerryn House, enjoying a lot of time in and around the fogou here.
It's an impressive site and feels alive. Going into the fogou is a little daunting, particularly with the absolute darkness at the far end, the slippery entrance after Spring rain, and the fact that, at least at this time of year, the floor was very muddy, with a huge puddle in the middle section of the main passage. The water there was about ankle depth, so wellingtons are essential if you're going all the way.
The current owner, Rob, told of us at least one person who had come to sleep overnight in the creep passage - quite an ordeal when you see the width of that small chamber and the size of the spiders!
Incidentally, the B&B run by the current owners is very comfortable and spacious and it's pretty unique to have a site like this to yourself for an entire weekend. No one else visited in the time we were there. | [ Reply to This ]
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