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Mulfra Quoit
Date Added: 17th Aug 2025
Site Type: Portal Tomb
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Mulfra Quoit submitted by Bladup on 16th Apr 2013. Mulfra Quoit.
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Log Text: I still have a pasty in my bag, so after a pint to refresh me, I decide to go up to Mulfra Quoit to eat it. It is a pleasant walk up to Mulfra Quoit in its hilltop position, taking the easy way after parking at the road junction at the top of the Try valley, and walking across the moorland from there. The views southwards from up here are great, with Mounts Bay shimmering in the distance. Three of the original four support stones remain, and the fallen 3 metres square capstone sits at an impressive angle on top of these and the ground. Little of the remains of its circular barrow can be seen.
Cardinham Churchyard
Date Added: 19th Aug 2025
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Cardinham Churchyard submitted by Thorgrim on 17th May 2004. This fine 10th century wheel-headed cross is the most southerly example of Scandinavian style ring-chain ornament.
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Log Text: Leaving Penzance, I head to Bodmin Moor, with the intention of collecting some old sites and southern B101 squares on my way to Minions for a moorland walk. I started off at Cardinham with its two splendid old crosses. One is a carved head mounted on top of a huge pillar, the other round by the side is all complete and with carvings.
Treslea Cross
Date Added: 19th Aug 2025
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Treslea Cross submitted by TheCaptain on 19th Aug 2025. Treslea Cross, with its choice of ways to go to Bodmin. Personally, I'd choose Blisland as a destination.
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Log Text: Now on to Treslea Cross, standing in a little green road junction triangle, with its splendid roadsign beside it. A choice of two ways to go to Bodmin, but I am tempted by Blisland.
Searle’s Down
Date Added: 23rd Aug 2025
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Searle’s Down submitted by SandyG on 19th Jan 2018. The stones nearest the reservoir. View from north west (Scale 1m).
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Log Text: At Colliford Lake, I park and go for a walk around it's shores, trying to find the Searle’s Down stone row. Can't be sure I actually found anything, perhaps the remnants of an old wall, but I was certainly looking in the right place. Perhaps the main stones are below the water level, although it looks quite low. Now home and looking at Sandy's photographs, clearly what he has of the obvious row is below the level of the water when I was there, but it does look from a couple of the pictures that I did indeed see the top end of the row.
Wenmouth Cross
Date Added: 25th Aug 2025
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Wenmouth Cross submitted by dooclay on 2nd Dec 2024. A mutilated latin cross set up in 1932 at the Wenmouth cross roads.
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Log Text: Heading south from Colliford Lake, I stop for a look at Wenmouth Cross. It stands at a shady spot by a road junction, its upper arms broken.
King Doniert's Stone
Date Added: 25th Aug 2025
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
King Doniert's Stone submitted by cazzyjane on 14th Oct 2010. King Doniert's Stone.
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Log Text: Now onwards to Minions, first looking at King Doniert's stone. This all took me ages, with some amazing traffic holdups behind sheep, tractors, busses, and best of all Highland Cattle sitting on a bridge. Donierts stone is looking splendid in the sun, but I feel I should head on as the road is chaos, with a school bus and lorry trying to pass each other.
Craddock Moor platform cairn
Date Added: 25th Aug 2025
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Craddock Moor platform cairn submitted by thecaptain on 1st Oct 2009. View east over Craddock Moor platform cairn and its berm.
Sharptor and Stowe's Hill in the background.
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Log Text: I get to Minions eventually, but find that the Cheesewring pub has burned down and is all abandoned. Get a quick pasty at the Minions village shop, before setting off for a walk to the Craddock Moor stone circle, as I havent been there for ages. Its very hot and I am extremely weary, but I get there and manage to have a look amidst a large group of cows. Before the circle is the platform cairn which is clear to see all covered in ferns, and is quite a big but low flat circle, probably up to a metre high above the surrounding moor.
Craddock Moor circle
Date Added: 27th Aug 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Craddock Moor circle submitted by mattimpey on 9th Dec 2008. Three of the most prominant prostrate stones look East. The large bush is in the middle of the stone circle.
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Log Text: Get to Minions eventually, but find that the Cheesewring pub has burned down and is all abandoned. Get a quick pasty at the Minions village shop, before setting off for a walk to the Craddock Moor stone circle, as I havent been there for ages. Its very hot and I am extremely weary, but I get there and manage to have a look amidst a large group of cows. It seems easier to find this time, with the stones more clear, possibly because its less overgrown.
The Hurlers Pipers
Date Added: 8th Sep 2025
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
The Hurlers Pipers submitted by JimChampion on 24th Aug 2007. View through the 'goalposts' of the Pipers, neatly framing Stowe's Hill in the distance (home of the Cheesewring natural rock feature and the neolithic enclosure of Stowe's Pound). These two stones stand to the west of the Hurlers stone circles. The dung in the foreground is from the ponies that graze the moor.
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Log Text: On way back from Craddock Moor, I stop for a look at The Pipers. Two nice stones, each standing about 2 metres tall, and about the same distance apart. Not too far away to the north is what initially looks like another one, but on closer inspection is some more modern memorial for something.
The Hurlers
Date Added: 8th Sep 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
The Hurlers submitted by Bladup on 24th Sep 2013. The Hurlers and the Sun.
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Log Text: Despite being hot, thirsty and very weary, I have a good look at all of the Hurlers stone circles on way back from Craddock Moor.
The Hurlers (N)
Date Added: 8th Sep 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 21st Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
The Hurlers (N) submitted by hoya105 on 23rd Jul 2019. the northernmost stones..
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Log Text: The northern of the three Hurlers stone circles is fairly complete, although this may be down to the restoration in the 1930's. The circle is 34.7 metres in diameter, with 16 stones remaining of a probable 28, of which 11 still stand, 5 are either stumps or fallen, with 9 modern markers and 3 completely missing. The stones are generally of about 1.0 to 1.8 metres tall, and fairly well shaped and dressed, with their flat faces lined up to the centre of the circle.
The Hurlers (C)
Date Added: 8th Sep 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 21st Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
The Hurlers (C) submitted by markj99 on 7th Mar 2023. The Hurlers Central Stone Circle viewed from W.
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Log Text: The central of the three Hurlers stone circles is perhaps the most complete of the lot, although this may be down to the restoration in the 1930's. The circle is an oval of 41 and 43 metres diameter, with 17 stones remaining of a probable 29, of which 14 still stand, 3 are either stumps or fallen, with other modern markers. The stones are generally of about 1.0 to 2.0 metres tall, and fairly well shaped and dressed, with their flat faces lined up to the centre of the circle.
The Hurlers (S)
Date Added: 8th Sep 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 21st Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
The Hurlers (S) submitted by Horatio on 22nd Jun 2024. The view looking from within the south circle towards the central and north circles.
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Log Text: The southern of the three Hurlers stone circles is by far the least complete of the lot, and was probably not altered much during the restoration in the 1930's. The circle is 32.8 metres in diameter, with 9 stones remaining of a probable 28, of which 2 still stand, 7 are either stumps or fallen, the rest completely missing. The stones are generally of about 1.0 to 1.8 metres tall.
Rillaton Barrow
Date Added: 8th Sep 2025
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 21st Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Rillaton Barrow submitted by ocifant on 3rd Oct 2004.
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Log Text: On a horrible grey wet morning in Minions, with typical Cornish horizontal moorland drizzle which varied between almost dry and torrential, we visited the Moorland visitor centre in the old mining engine house first, which had a little exhibition all about the various features to be found on the moor here, and also a good little display about the current investigations of the Hurlers Circles. From here I took Dad to see the Rillaton Barrow, and the stone lined chamber in the side from where the famous gold cup was found. Somewhat to my surprise, Dad remembered seeing the cup in the British Museum, and also the crushed one from Kent. We didn’t spend too long out here in this wet!
Castlerigg
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jul 2008
Castlerigg submitted by thecaptain on 6th Jul 2008. Removing of the turf at the centre of the circle before some sham "ceremony"
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Kemp Howe
Date Added: 9th Oct 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 30th Jun 2008
Kemp Howe submitted by thecaptain on 16th Jul 2008. The remaining arc of Kemp Howe stone circle, looking south westish.
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Swinside
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 27th Sep 2017
Swinside submitted by TheCaptain on 27th Sep 2017. Sunkenkirk as a stone row !
Stitched together set of photos taken from the middle of the stone circle.
Probably wont get to show too well shrunk to fit the Portal's sitepage!
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Low Longrigg SW
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 4th Oct 2017
Low Longrigg SW submitted by TheCaptain on 4th Oct 2017. Very hard to find in very long grass on very uneven and boggy ground, amongst many cairns all over the place. I found what I thought was the remnants of a stone circle, but was not 100% convinced.
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Low Longrigg NE
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 4th Oct 2017
Low Longrigg NE submitted by TheCaptain on 4th Oct 2017. Very hard to find in very long grass on very uneven and boggy ground, amongst many cairns all over the place.
Further up the ridge I again found what I thought was the remnants of a stone circle, but was not 100% convinced, but seemed too far from what I thought was the SW circle for them to both be correct.
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Boot cairn circle
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 4th Oct 2017
Boot cairn circle submitted by TheCaptain on 4th Oct 2017. Small circle of stones, probably the remaining kerb circle from a cairn, near the remains of several peat cutters huts just to the right of the path up from Boot to Brat's Hill.
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