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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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Swingate F
Date Added: 15th Jul 2025
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 19th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Swingate F submitted by enkidu41 on 1st Sep 2004. The location of this stone provides extensive views over the sea towards the Lizard peninsula.
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Log Text: On towards Mousehole and Swingate F, and again I see a stone standing in a field nowhere near where marked. A nice pointed stone down nearer the sea I don’t go for a closer look, as I have to get on. I am now getting very tired and weary. I thought the walk would only take an hour and half, but it was very demanding so took a lot longer. I had not carried my bag, and omitted to take water and sustenance, and well before I got back I was really suffering. Eventually I get to the cove and just have time for a crab sandwich from the cafe. Head up to the Lamorna Wink for a pint, but it has shut at 3:00, 5 mins before I got there. Damn. Where now? I know, over to Treen and the Logan Rock. An eventful day, but no mermaids today. Aided a knackered man doing coastpath by taking him to the bus stop, and a rescued a young Londoner and wife who had crashed his car because the roads are not wide and straight enough.
Swingate E
Date Added: 15th Jul 2025
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 19th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Swingate E submitted by enkidu41 on 1st Sep 2004. The location of this stone is just north of the coastal path and provides extensive views out to sea.
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Log Text: I just about make it through the field of young bullocks before they all come sauntering over to see me. In the next field is Swingate E, but nowhere near where it was marked on the portal, and it doesn't look all that ancient to me. It later turns out that many of these stones around here are innacurately marked on the portal, something I try to correct later. It is very hard to know round here what is an ancient menhir and what is a more modern rubbing stone, as most of the fields have a central stone.
Swingate C
Date Added: 15th Jul 2025
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 19th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Swingate C submitted by Bladup on 8th Nov 2012. Swingate C.
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Log Text: After the Kemyel Crease farm buildings the path continues through some woodland with a spring / well which is very pleasant. Out into fields again and through Kemyel Drea with its slightly confusing paths and herd of inquisitive cows. I get back on track and see the top of Swingate C above the cropped field in which it stands.
Kemyel B
Date Added: 15th Jul 2025
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 19th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Kemyel B submitted by Bladup on 8th Nov 2012. Kemyel B.
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Log Text: Now to look for Kemyel B. I can find nothing at the place its marked on my map, perhaps its hidden in the hedge or a bit of rough ground. Still finding nothing, I decide to carry on along the track behind the farm, where I find a nice big stone acting as a gatepost, so assume this is it. Now I am back looking at the portal, and I see several pictures of this stone telling me that it is not Kemyel B. However, it will have to do me as I need to get on.
Kemyel A
Date Added: 15th Jul 2025
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 19th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 3
Kemyel A submitted by enkidu41 on 1st Sep 2004. A 6' high stone standing in the middle of a field.
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Log Text: Walking from Lamorna Cove over the top to Mousehole, then back along the coastpath, there are many stones to be found in the fields near Lamorna. It’s a lovely walk up the Lamorna valley to the old mill, then head up into the fields towards Kemyel farm. The first stone, Kemyel A, is a nice 6 footer centrally in the field, so I go for a close look.
Boleigh Fogou
Date Added: 9th Jul 2025
Site Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 19th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Boleigh Fogou submitted by ocifant on 3rd Oct 2004. The entrance to the fogou.
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Log Text: The plan for today is a visit to Boleigh Fogou then down to Lamorna Cove for a coastal walk to Mousehole. I had tried to call the contact number for Rosemerryn house several times, but got no response. As I was passing I saw two ladies wandering the grounds in the woods, so thought I would ask them. However, they turned out to be guests at the rental house, but did tell me that there may be somebody up in the main house to ask. So I walked up the road and along the driveway, when a lady came cycling down the lane, so I said hello and asked if she knew anything. She was in fact (Laura?) the owner of the house. I explained that I would like to see the fogou, and had called but not had an answer, but as I was actually down here near the place, and spoken to the ladies in the garden, I thought that it was worth going to see if anyone was in. She was very nice about it and seemed pleased to show me the fogou, which is not far outside the main house in a little woodland. Thank you very much. The fogou is wonderful, all quiet and calm away from the heat. The main passageway is now open at both ends letting adequate light in, and looks like it collects a large pool of water when it is wet, but not something for today. There are several white globes hanging from the ceiling, probably spiders egg cases, but maybe something to do with bats, or indeed just balloons of seafog. The creep passage off to the left has a small entrance, which I was unable / unwilling to crawl through, but could stick my head and camera inside for a picture. What a magical place this is, and its great to have been able to visit after all these decades.
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.
Sennen Church
Date Added: 19th Jul 2025
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Sennen Church submitted by hamish on 18th Jan 2007. This is in the cemetry in the Church yard.
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Log Text: After a cooling pint at the First and Last, head on and stop for a look at Sennen church, where there are two ancient crosses to ook at. One a wheelhead on a wall, the other a splendid cross standing proud.
Trevescan Cross
Date Added: 19th Jul 2025
Site Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Trevescan Cross submitted by cazzyjane on 8th Jan 2014. Wheel-headed wayside cross stands on the side of the A30 between Sennen and Lands End.
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Log Text: After leaving Nanjizal I head back up and inland, past several ancient crosses before I can stop for a well earned pint at the First and Last. Trevescan Cross is seen in a shady spot beside the main road outside a holiday park