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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: St Dennis Churchyard Cross
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.272 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Cornwall Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: St Austell Nearest Village: St Dennis
Map Ref: SW95155835
Latitude: 50.389262N Longitude: 4.883186W
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3	Reasonable but with some damage
2	Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1	Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5	Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4	Short walk on a footpath
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2	A long walk
1	In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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**St Dennis Churchyard Cross** submitted by AngieLake : 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. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Ancient Cross in Cornwall

This lovely old cross stands inside St Dennis churchyard. This site was once an Iron Age hill fort, known in Cornwall as a dinas, or dynas.
See the Hill fort pages for St Dennis for further information.
In his website: http://homepages.tesco.net/~k.wasley/Dennis.htm, Mr Wasley tell us that:
"The stone cross standing in the churchyard is of great antiquity. It appears to have Clepshydra or hour glasses on the shaft, and there could be an inscription on the pedestal, which might be revealed if the earth were taken away."
"1087 - Christian building on this site entered in the Doomsday as Landinas or Landiner. St Denys Church, Temple or Chapel. .... The church appears to have been originally a chantry chapel...."
This cross stands beside the main path, approached from the southern entrance through large double wrought iron gates, to the south porch of the church. The cross seems very clean on its rear side, as if it had laid on that side for some time while gathering lichen on its other face. In my memory the western and northern part of the churchyard were very atmospheric, even more so than this area.
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