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East Moor ring cairn
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 5th Dec 2010
East Moor ring cairn submitted by TheCaptain on 5th Dec 2010. The ring cairn centrally on the top of the hill in the middle of East Moor is a splendid example, about 15 metres in diameter. It has a rubble bank about 1 metre wide surrounding a nicely flattened centre.
Pictures cannot do this ring cairn any justice.
View looking southeast towards Trewortha Tor.
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East Moor cairn
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Round Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 5th Dec 2010
East Moor cairn submitted by TheCaptain on 5th Dec 2010. This is a nice large cairn about 14 or 15 metres in diameter, which has several large slab stones surrounding it, and what seems to be the robbed out remains of a chamber in the centre.
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East Moor stone B
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 6th Dec 2010
East Moor stone B submitted by TheCaptain on 6th Dec 2010. Less than 50 metres to the west of the round cairn can be seen a stone standing proud of the moor, so I went for a look.
It is clearly an edge set stone positioned here, 2 feet tall, 3 feet wide and having lost its top.
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East Moor stone C
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 6th Dec 2010
East Moor stone C submitted by TheCaptain on 6th Dec 2010. About 50 metres to the southeast of the round cairn can be seen a stone standing proud of the moor, so I went for a look. It is clearly an edge set stone positioned here, about 2.5 feet tall and wide, a definite stander similar to the one to the west of the cairn.
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Greymare Rock
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 7th Dec 2010
Greymare Rock submitted by TheCaptain on 7th Dec 2010. The Greymare natural rock outcrop can be seen sanding in the middle of East Moor from substantial distance away, particularly from the East Moor hill.
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Colquite Menhir
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 7th Dec 2010
Colquite Menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 7th Dec 2010. The possible Colquite menhir seen within its surroundings.
Just why do the walls avoid it?
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The Ridge Cairn
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 12th Dec 2010
The Ridge Cairn submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Dec 2010. Approaching the cairn along the top of the hill from the southwest.
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Clitters Cairn
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Dec 2010
Clitters Cairn submitted by TheCaptain on 14th Dec 2010. Clitters Cairn on the edge of Bodmin Moor, seen here looking north-ish.
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Leskernick cairn
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 27th Oct 2012
Leskernick cairn submitted by theCaptain on 27th Oct 2012. Looking westwards towards the cairn from the tin worked stream.
A couple of stones from the stone row can be seen
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St George's Well (Padstow)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 5th Nov 2012
St George's Well (Padstow) submitted by theCaptain on 5th Nov 2012. St George's Cove is a sandy inlet on the western side of the Camel Estuary, about a kilometre or so north of Padstow.
A little stream runs down from the fields here onto the beach at the cove, and sometimes makes a pool or sometimes just dries up in the sands without directly reaching the sea.
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Roche Rock
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Rock Outcrop
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 6th Nov 2012
Roche Rock submitted by theCaptain on 6th Nov 2012. Passing on the way to visit the Eden Project, the rock and chapel were lit up by the most amazing silvery sunlight against a dark grey sky.
By the time I had stopped the car and got out, it had gone. I waited a while, and took a couple of pictures, some of which have it fairly well lit, but not so good as the initial view!
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Longstone (St Mabyn)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 6th Nov 2012
Longstone (St Mabyn) submitted by theCaptain on 6th Nov 2012. The stone stands just over a metre tall and is fairly flat, and nicely presented.
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Penwine Cross
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 7th Nov 2012
Penwine Cross submitted by theCaptain on 7th Nov 2012. The front face of tthis re-erected cross head has an equal armed cross engraved onto it.
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Redcliff Castle
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 12th Nov 2012
Redcliff Castle submitted by theCaptain on 12th Nov 2012. looking south along the top of the inland (or is it central) rampart.
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Brea Hill
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Nov 2012
Brea Hill submitted by theCaptain on 23rd Nov 2012. Four, or is it five, round cairns are supremely positioned on the top of the lovely rounded Brea Hill, which sticks out into the beautiful Camel Estuary to the south of Daymer Bay
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St Eval Airport Stone
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 25th Nov 2012
St Eval Airport Stone submitted by theCaptain on 25th Nov 2012. Not far away is another much smaller block of quartz, whether it is of any significance I don't know.
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St Eval Church Stones
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 29th Nov 2012
St Eval Church Stones submitted by theCaptain on 29th Nov 2012. St Eval churchyard supposedly has several large standing stones within it and the wall surrounding it, but I was unprepared and didn't know how many or where to look; as a result I only found one of the 3 or more standing stones in its surrounding wall.
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Caerloggas Down Circle
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Dec 2012
Caerloggas Down Circle submitted by theCaptain on 3rd Dec 2012. My Dad giving scale to the larger stones
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Caerloggas Down longstone
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 9th Dec 2012
Caerloggas Down longstone submitted by theCaptain on 9th Dec 2012. A large standing stone, about 6 feet tall surrounded by 5 other stones on a large bump in the ground, with many other stones placed around it, perhaps making twin concentric circles. I assume its a newly erected stone feature.
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St Breock Beacon Kistvaen
Date Added: 5th Nov 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 28th Sep 2012. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
St Breock Beacon Kistvaen submitted by theCaptain on 17th Dec 2012. Recently rediscovered underneath a heavily overgrown region of scrub, just to the southwest of Men Gurta. It basically consists of two large stone slabs, one leaning on the other.
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Log Text: Recently rediscovered underneath a heavily overgrown region of scrub, just to the southwest of Men Gurta, this monument was first recorded by William Borlase in his 1872 work Naenia Cornubiae.
It basically consists of two large stone slabs, one leaning on the other. I found it by walking in a southwesterly direction from Men Gurta across scrubland and then down a track towards the trigpoint. Just after crossing a farmtrack, there is an area of very overgrown gorse bushes, which seem to nowadays be used for dumping and tipping waste and junk. From on top of one of the piles of rubble, I had a good look around, and saw the large stones not far away, but impossible to reach from my position. Having another attempt from a more easterly position, I managed to get through the waist high gorse and brambles, while at times I found myself in water almost up to my knees! The things we stonehunters put ourselves through.
When I eventually got to the stones, I couldn't see much, as the surrounding area was so waterlogged and they are so overgrown, but it is clear they are a megalithic construction. With this now back on the megalithic map, I am sure others will be able to get better pictures and descriptions of this during better conditions, and before it becomes totally covered in the rubble and junk tipped up here.