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Bosiliack Barrow
Date Added: 17th Aug 2025
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Bosiliack Barrow submitted by LiveAndrew on 20th Aug 2021. Bosiliack Barrow
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Log Text: From the Nine Maidens I continue past the remains of the DingDong mine, and head west through some overgrown land before finding the required trackway down towards Lanyon Farm. From here it is fairly straightforwards to find the remains of the Bosiliack Barrow, which having been excavated a few years ago is looking splendid. A nice circular structure with large upright kerbstones and an almost complete passageway through the middle. Well worth the effort of finding. Back to the car and head over for a well earned pint at the Gurnards Head hotel, which was being visited by a herd of cows.
Boskednan stone circle
Date Added: 16th Aug 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Boskednan stone circle submitted by LINCOOK on 23rd Jun 2022. Boskednan Nine Maidens - Summer Solstice Sunrise 2022 (Photo Competition)
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Log Text: It wasn't too long ago I last visited this circle, but I know I was in a rush then. It seems more complete than I remember, so has perhaps had more restoration done, or I don't remember it much as I was in a hurry the last time.
Boskednan Menhir 1
Date Added: 16th Aug 2025
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Boskednan Menhir 1 submitted by theCaptain on 14th Oct 2014. From my dim memories, I thought that the menhir was somewhere between the stone circle and the cairns along the path towards Men-an-Tol.
On the way back I notice indeed there is a stump and perhaps a fallen stone right on the pathway where I was expecting it, is it remains of a pair?
Pipers perhaps?
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Log Text: Walk on towards the Nine Maidens. Just a stump seems to remain of the menhir which was supposedly somewhere between the circle and these cairns.
Boskednan B
Date Added: 16th Aug 2025
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Boskednan B submitted by Bladup on 24th Nov 2024. A smaller tumulus found just to the south of the larger tumulus at SW4329435260
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Log Text: A bit further on can be seen the Boskednan B cairn, mostly by the fact that there is a large circle of differently coloured overgrowth.
Boskednan A
Date Added: 16th Aug 2025
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Boskednan A submitted by h_fenton on 10th Mar 2009. Oblique aerial view of two tumuli at Boskednan. The tumulus in the foreground is at grid reference SW43263530 and includes the Boskednan menhir. The green patch in the background is another tumulus marked on the OS map at grid reference SW43293526.
Kite Aerial Photograph, 16 October 2008
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Log Text: On upwards to Boskednan Cairn with its surrounding stone circle, which is just off the path to the west. This could be quite a splendid site if it was tidied up, but as it is it’s a bit like a game of hunt the stone amongst the overgrowth.
Men Scryfa
Date Added: 16th Aug 2025
Site Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Men Scryfa submitted by dodomad on 5th Jun 2023. James Kitto from CASPN, the Cornish Ancient Sites Protection Network writes: On Thursday, CASPN received a very concerning message from a member of the public that there had been an attack on Mên Scryfa, an inscribed stone, and probably formerly a Bronze Age menhir that stands below Carn Galva.
Someone had poured petrol (or similar liquid) over the top of the stone and set it on fire - blackening the top part of the stone’s north side and burning off all the lichen from that part of the ...
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Log Text: Walk up from Men-an-Tol to Men Scryfa and it looks splendid in a green field, unlike my previous memories of it being surrounded by mud. Unfortunately with the bright sunshine, the inscription was in deep shade.
Men-An-Tol
Date Added: 11th Aug 2025
Site Type: Holed Stone
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 20th Aug 1967
Men-An-Tol submitted by Dodomad on 8th Jul 2025. Previously at Tate St Ives, now at Tate Britain until 19th October 2025 - The first major exhibition of visionary artist Ithell Colquhoun
One of the most radical artists of her generation, Ithell Colquhoun was an important figure in British Surrealism during the 1930s and 1940s. An innovative writer and practicing occultist, Colquhoun charted her own course, investigating surrealist methods of unconscious picture-making and fearlessly delving into the realms of myth and magic.
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Log Text: My first recorded visit while on holiday in Cornwall. I wonder if there are any old pictures somewhere, which is how I have the date.
Men-An-Tol
Date Added: 11th Aug 2025
Site Type: Holed Stone
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Men-An-Tol submitted by Dodomad on 8th Jul 2025. Previously at Tate St Ives, now at Tate Britain until 19th October 2025 - The first major exhibition of visionary artist Ithell Colquhoun
One of the most radical artists of her generation, Ithell Colquhoun was an important figure in British Surrealism during the 1930s and 1940s. An innovative writer and practicing occultist, Colquhoun charted her own course, investigating surrealist methods of unconscious picture-making and fearlessly delving into the realms of myth and magic.
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Log Text: My afternoon plan is to go for the walk around Men-an-Tol, Men Scryfa, Boskednan nine maidens, Ding-Dong mine, Bosiliak barrow etc, which is lovely, but a bit hot and tiring. I managed to crawl through the Men-an-Tol hole, while a couple of other visitors took my poto. Hopefully that will stop me getting rickets, but I needed to do it 9 times to aid my back problems. But it is not good for the knees!
Men-An-Tol
Date Added: 11th Aug 2025
Site Type: Holed Stone
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 27th Sep 2012. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Men-An-Tol submitted by Dodomad on 8th Jul 2025. Previously at Tate St Ives, now at Tate Britain until 19th October 2025 - The first major exhibition of visionary artist Ithell Colquhoun
One of the most radical artists of her generation, Ithell Colquhoun was an important figure in British Surrealism during the 1930s and 1940s. An innovative writer and practicing occultist, Colquhoun charted her own course, investigating surrealist methods of unconscious picture-making and fearlessly delving into the realms of myth and magic.
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Log Text: Visiting Cornwall with my father in 2012, we went for a drive round some of the family favourite old stones places. While driving from Zennor to Madron, travelling south up over the hilltop, I thought "Ah, Mên-an-Tol, Dad should remember this", so stopped for a walk up the lane and visit to the stones. Lots of other people here, many crawling through the stone, but they didn't seem to know why. After some time they left and we had it to ourselves for a moment before the next lot arrived. Yes, I did crawl through the stone, once in each direction. Dad put his head through for a picture but did not pass through. I explained that it was probably once part of a circle, and the holed stone perhaps part of a nearby burial chamber, similar in fact to what we had seen up on Bodmin at Leskernick. I must look out some of those photos.
St Michael's Mount crosses
Date Added: 9th Aug 2025
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
St Michael's Mount crosses submitted by AngieLake on 31st Dec 2009. One of the most noticeable crosses on the edge of the cliff below the castle.
In 'Ancient Sites in Penwith' by Cheryl Straffon, in the section for 'Crosses', 'St Michael's Mount', she writes: "... an ancient magnificent 6ft shafted and decorated cross (5144 2981) on the SW side poised precariously above the sea."
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Log Text: Before entering the castle, above the battlements with their canon, is an old cross shaft. Looking out over the gardens from the castle terrace can be seen two other ancient celtic crosses, like they are standing guard. There are supposedly a couple more which I didn't spot.
Giant's Well (St. Michael's Mount)
Date Added: 9th Aug 2025
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Giant's Well (St. Michael's Mount) submitted by theendlessbreeze on 3rd May 2005. Giant's Well, St Michael's Mount. Located on the walk up to the castle. Legend says that this was the home of the giants Cormoran and his wife Cormelian. Jack defeated Cormoran after the giant terrorised local lands. Near the well is a stone named the Giant's Heart.
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Log Text: Alongside the steep path up to the castle is seen The Giant's Well. This is the place where Jack the Giant Killer trapped and killed the giant Cormoran after he had become a nuisance to the locals. A bit further up can be found The Giant's Heart. After Jack had killed the Giant Cormoran, he ripped out his heart and hurled it as far as he could. This is where it landed and remains to this day. Listen carefully, and it can sometimes still be heard beating
St Michael's Mount
Date Added: 9th Aug 2025
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
St Michael's Mount submitted by JimChampion on 1st Jan 2005. August 2004. "Diodorus Sicululs, the Greek historian writing in 70 CE called this island Ictis, and it was from here that Cornish tin was traded with Mediterranean countries." [from Celtic Britain by Homer Sykes, 1997]
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Log Text: I decide on an easy day, with a morning visit to St Michael's Mount, so drive to Marazion, get the boat over to the island, and do the Castle tour, which is lovely. I suspect I haven't been in here since I was about 7 years old.
Caerleon Roman Fortress and Baths
Date Added: 7th Aug 2025
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 30th Jul 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Caerleon Roman Fortress and Baths submitted by TAlanJones on 23rd Feb 2022. Site of the Roman Barracks.
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Log Text: A proper visit to Caerleon with all the things open. Start in the museum, lots of fabulous stuff in here, and doing soldier reinactments outside in roman style gardens. On to the new bath house museum built on the site of the old baths. Very well done with audiovisual interpretations of people swimming and lots of finds etc. Lunch then walk round to the old barracks area. Remains of four big blocks and the external walls with entrance and toilet block. Next to the amphitheatre for a proper look around. It's magnificent, excellent. Continue with a walk around much of the town walls and sculpture park before a half on the quayside.
Caerleon Roman Amphitheatre
Date Added: 7th Aug 2025
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 30th Jul 2025. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Caerleon Roman Amphitheatre submitted by TheCaptain on 7th Aug 2025. From atop the northeastern terracing
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Log Text: Think this is my first time actually in to the amphitheatre for a proper look around having only seen from outside the fencing before. It's magnificent, with big entrances for the participants, small entrances with steps up to the terracing for the audience, and the "royal box" for the important bloke who made life or death decisions.
Madron Well
Date Added: 27th Jul 2025
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2025. 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: The lovely atmospheric path to the well and baptistry is all that could be wanted, slightly overgrown and gnarled branches with ancient lichen dripping off them. The two areas of water near to the path are as usual decorated with all sorts of stuff, but it is mostly not the junk and tat it was in the past, but sensible cloth and other offerings. Once again, I could not get to the true well, as I could not make my way across the water and through the undergrowth, making me wonder whether I will ever get to it now. I move on to the quiet baptistry, and find that the water no longer flows through it as there has been some breakages in pipe or movement of rocks which direct the stream. As I am leaving and returning to the car, there is a young chap by one of the sites of offerings, wondering what it all is, so I tell him a bit about it, and that there will be more surprises for him if he explores a bit. His comments were something along the lines of "I've never seen anything like it, its amazing".
Lanyon Quoit
Date Added: 27th Jul 2025
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2025. 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: A nice sunny visit to Lanyon Quoit all by myself. Try not to take too many pictures!
Tregea Hill
Date Added: 24th Jul 2025
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
Tregea Hill submitted by Bladup on 20th Jul 2015. The slight bank at Tregea Hill.
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Log Text: Tregea Hill at the southwestern side of Portreath beach. After I'd slogged up to the top, I'd forgotten to look for any traces of remaining ramparts! A brilliant place to watch the birds from. Choughs, puffins, fulmars etc.
Crane Castle
Date Added: 24th Jul 2025
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Crane Castle submitted by Bladup on 20th Jul 2015. Defences at Crane Castle.
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Log Text: Walking a loop along the coast path from Portreath, I stopped above Basset's Cove for lunch before turning inland, before reaching the remains of Crane Castle fort. Despite most of the headland having now been claimed by the sea, I was sure I could see remains of ramparts.
Goodaver
Date Added: 23rd Jul 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 3
Goodaver submitted by cazzyjane on 6th Dec 2014. Goodaver Stone Circle, Bodmin Moor.
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Log Text: On the way down to Penzance, I try again to visit Goodaver stone circle, this time walking up the new path from Trezibbet in the rain. I certainly wasn't going to let the wind driven rain and mist stop me! There is room to park a car carefully just opposite the new bridge by the entrance to Dozmary farm. The new bridge and path up made this visit possible, so thank you to all responsible for that. The situation of the circle is stunning, with all the conifer tree plantations removed. I never realised its prominence on its hilltop position with views all around. I didn't spend too long up there, not only all the rain, but the ground was marshy and sodden. Decided its a place to go back to on a nice day, and after all, its now easy!
Mayon menhir
Date Added: 19th Jul 2025
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Mayon menhir submitted by AngieLake on 7th Dec 2015. Mayon menhir in May 2009, taken from a footpath en route to a coastal walk.
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Log Text: From Sennen I move on to Mayon and then head down across the fields towards Sennen Cove. There is a stone standing in the field to the left, but I can only see the top above the crop. Continue diagonally down into Sennen Cove, the views from here are the best of Sennen and Whitesand bay to Cape Cornwall, so glad I did this bit.