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Boscawen Un
Date Added: 7th Aug 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jul 2003
Boscawen un submitted by thecaptain on 30th Jan 2004. Boscawen un circle, Penwith, Cornwall in July 2003. I just love the place. Interested to see Ocifants picture from march with the circle cleared, I thought I'd send this picture showing how rapidly it had overgrown again.
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Log Text: Visited during a day in Penzance before catching a train to Plymouth for a sailing trip to the Scilly Isles
Chysauster
Date Added: 6th Aug 2022
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Chysauster submitted by cromagnonman on 2nd Mar 2011. Part of Chysauster taken at sunrise. Spring 2011
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Log Text: Day down to Penwith and start with a visit to Chysauster, which is looking magnificent on this bluesky morning, I just love it with all the wildflowers out. A lot of tidying work has been done around most of the houses, and some informative signs installed, along with a raised viewing area allowing a vision of the whole site. So fabulous to see this wonderful ancient village again.
Chysauster Fogou
Date Added: 6th Aug 2022
Site Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Chysauster Fogou submitted by enkidu41 on 26th Apr 2004. SW 4720 3483
Only 2 roofing lintels remain of this fogou associated with Chysauster Courtyard House village. The English Heritage response to the cost of restoration is sadly predictable.
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Log Text: Day down to Penwith and start with a visit to Chysauster, which is looking magnificent. Just love it with all the wildflowers out. Once in the site, over to the right hand side is the fogou, sadly fenced off and said to be unsafe, as it was when I came here in the 1980's. Shame it cant be made accessible.
Maen Castle
Date Added: 5th Aug 2022
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Maen Castle submitted by thecaptain on 31st Aug 2008. Jim's mention of Dr Syntax's head prompted me to search though some of my old pictures this dull damp August afternoon, rather than being out searching for the real thing.
This is Dr Syntax's head, which gives its name to that part of Lands End.
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Log Text: From Sennen Cove, I decide to walk up to the coastguard lookout shelter and on to look at the shipwreck of the RMS Mülheim, wrecked March 2003, the path passing right beside the Mayon Cliff cairn, and with the cliff castle clearly visible the other side.
Mayon Cliff cairn
Date Added: 5th Aug 2022
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Mayon Cliff cairn submitted by theCaptain on 7th Jan 2014. Photo taken during the recent storms showing the force of the waves crashing onto Mayon Cliff above Sennen Cove. There is also a video available which shows the whole of the cliff completely awash.
Photo by Tony Armstrong Photography with their wishes for it to be shared.
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Log Text: From Sennen Cove, I decide to walk up to the coastguard lookout shelter and on to look at the shipwreck of the RMS Mülheim, wrecked March 2003, the path passing right beside the Mayon Cliff cairn, and with the cliff castle clearly visible the other side.
Dry Tree Menhir
Date Added: 2nd Aug 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Dry Tree Menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 2nd Aug 2022. A glorious mix of ancient standing stone, juxtaposed beside all the hiTech tracking station dishes, especially as the sun was setting behind hazy clouds.
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Log Text: After an afternoon visiting Kynance Cove and Lizard Point, then dinner at the Witchball, it is getting late, and I want to go find the Dry Tree menhir beside Goonhilly Downs Earth Station. Park in the nature reserve car park and a lovely walk all around, to find the glorious mix of ancient standing stone and tumuli, juxtaposed beside all the hiTech tracking station dishes. Lovely in the setting sun.
Piskey’s Hall – The Fairy’s Fogou
Date Added: 1st Aug 2022
Site Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Piskey’s Hall – The Fairy’s Fogou submitted by coin on 3rd Nov 2013. So... Getting to this site is a welcome voyage, arriving at the gate (higher than a normal one) I read a friendly sign- warning me of a bull... So the landowner obviously doesn't want people visiting this site. Climbing over the gate I am affronted with another welcoming feature- electric fence. Slipping under the offending wire, and edging around the field keeping an eye out for the bull of terror, I approach the mound if earth and stones. When I reach it, I am presented with another electric f...
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Log Text: I want to stop for my pasty at the Piskeys Hall fogou, but it takes me several attempts to find it, and only then I have to climb over a gate into a thankfully empty field, but see nothing like any of the pictures I have seen. It must be over by the far edge of the field somewhere, but there's nothing obvious, just a very overgrown clump. Its all very overgrown, and at first I cannot find anything to see, but then I do see a stone lined entrance amongst the gorse and brambles which I am just about able to get to. Yes, I have found the main structure and am able to get down into it. This one seems more like a large entrance grave than the other fogous I have seen, but who am I to argue.
Halliggye
Date Added: 28th Jul 2022
Site Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 3
Halliggye submitted by JimChampion on 29th Sep 2006. Entrance to the creep at the northern end of the main passage. The original entrance (now bricked up and buried) is at the far end of this creep.
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Log Text: A day down to The Lizard for a couple of fogous and the Verdant Brewery. Start with Halliggye Fogou, but found it hard to find in the Trelowarren Estate. After driving all around the estate, I found a place to park near the house, but could still find no obvious signs to the fogou despite it being in the care of EH. After a lot of walking and asking people, I eventually found it. The way back to the car was easier, and at a sort of back entrance to the carpark there was indeed a sign with a map showing the way to the fogou. Once you find the fogou, what a fabulous thing it is. It is set within a little tended area, and there is a plan of what to find underground. This does help to orientate yourself once in, but it is pitch black and a good torch is needed. My torch was not great, so I found myself stumbling about a bit! The way down into the fogou was narrow and damp, despite there being no rain for several days, then past some iron gates used to close the fogou to the public at certain times to protect the bats, then into the dark. Two long passages and two small creep passages, all in total darkness. In the further passage I had a couple of bats flying around, but disappointingly never got one in a picture. Magic.
Roughtor north
Date Added: 24th Jul 2022
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Roughtor north submitted by bec-zog on 26th Mar 2004. ROUGH TOR SX141815
Prehistoric Bronze Age landscape: well preserved group of hut circles, cairns, burial chambers & associated structures.
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Log Text: To the northwest of the bulk of Roughtor is a very large and strung out settlement, and cairns.
Roughtor South
Date Added: 24th Jul 2022
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Roughtor South submitted by TheCaptain on 11th Apr 2005. A hut circle at the Roughtor South village. Many of the buildings here seem to be complex double or treble roomed dwellings.
View looking north towards Roughtor itself.
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Log Text: North of the stone circle, and south of the bulk of Roughtor are the remains of a large and complex settlement
Fernacre
Date Added: 24th Jul 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Fernacre submitted by Andy B on 8th Oct 2003.
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Log Text: Walking around Fernacre stone circle today I counted 53 stones, plus the outlier. There are no doubt more under the grassy tufts. Its splendid here today, although the overcast sky makes it bad for photos
Fernacre Outlier
Date Added: 24th Jul 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Fernacre Outlier submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Mar 2005. Fernacre Stone Circle.
Radially outwards from the large triangular stone at a distance of about 50 metres, is a pink granite stone, quite possibly an outlier of some kind.
View looking west towards Louden Hill, into the sun and haze.
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Log Text: Down from Brown Willy, I walk around the western end of Roughtor, firstly visiting Fernacre stone circle with its outlier.
Brown Willy Cairn S
Date Added: 24th Jul 2022
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 2
Brown Willy Cairn S submitted by TheCaptain on 24th Jul 2022. On a lesser summit at the southern end of the ridgetop is a large round cairn
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Log Text: Walk south along the Brown Willy ridgetop, and there is a really splendid cairn at the southern top.
Brown Willy Barrow Cemetery
Date Added: 24th Jul 2022
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Brown Willy Barrow Cemetery submitted by Bladup on 13th Feb 2014. Brown Willy. This view is taken from near the summit cairn and is looking south towards the other cairn.
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Log Text: Up to the top of Brown Willy, where there is a large cairn, with trig point and modern rearrangements on the northern top, where I eat my pasty. Walk south along the ridgetop, and there is a really splendid cairn at the southern top.
Roughtor well
Date Added: 24th Jul 2022
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Roughtor well submitted by theCaptain on 11th Jan 2015. I am amazed that I never knew of its existence in the past (ah, I see, rediscovered and restored in 1994).
A nice stone trough and well front has been built over a fairly vigorous spring quite high up on the Roughtor Massif, approximately halfway between the main Roughtor top and the Showery Tor top on the north-western hillside.
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Log Text: This was a nice find, and I am amazed that I never knew of its existance in the past. A nice stone trough and well front has been built over a fairly vigourous spring quite high up on the Roughtor Massif, approximately halfway between the main Roughtor top and the Showery Tor top on the northwestern hillside. It is fairly easy to find amongst all of the other natural clitter on a clear day, as the stream which runs out from it can be seen at is traces its way down the hillside. The well can be simply found at the top of this! There were a few little offerings strewn amongst the stones on the afternoon of my visit.
Roughtor settlement
Date Added: 24th Jul 2022
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Roughtor settlement submitted by Bladup on 21st Apr 2013. Inside the amazing Roughtor Neolithic settlement.
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Log Text: Around the top of the Roughtor hilltop, from Little Roughtor in the northeast to the main Roughtor summit in the southwest, can be seen the remains of a stone bank encircling the hilltop. In places this stone bank remains very significant, but in other places, particularly on the steeper slopes, it is less significant, probably due to stones falling off and rolling down the hillside amongst all of the other clitter. There are remains of a few cairns and hut circles within this enclosure.
Little Roughtor Cairns
Date Added: 24th Jul 2022
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2014. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Little Roughtor Cairns submitted by theCaptain on 11th Jan 2015. The granite outcrops at the top of Little RoughTor, halfway between Showery Tor and the main Roughtor summits are seen to have remains of cairn structures surrounding and attached to some of the significant granite outcrops.
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Log Text: The granite outcrops at the top of Little RoughTor, halfway between Showery Tor and the main Roughtor summits are also seen to have remains of cairn structures surrounding and attached to some of the significant granite outcrops.
Showery Tor Ring Cairn
Date Added: 24th Jul 2022
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Showery Tor Ring Cairn submitted by Bladup on 21st Jul 2015. Showery Tor Ring Cairn.
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Log Text: A day to climb up Roughtor and Brown Willy. Start off up to Showery Tor with its splendid ring cairn around the cheesewring on top.
Showery Tor Ring Cairn
Date Added: 24th Jul 2022
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Aug 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Showery Tor Ring Cairn submitted by theCaptain on 11th Jan 2015. The beautiful pile of weathered and balanced granite slabs at the top of Showery Tor has a very large and well defined ring of stones around it.
No doubt this place was of great significance to the ancient people who lived around here.
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Log Text: The beautiful pile of weathered and balanced granite slabs at the top of Showery Tor has a very large and well defined ring of stones around it. No doubt this place was of great significance to the ancient people who lived around here.
Easter Aquhorthies
Date Added: 18th Jul 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 10th Oct 2016. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Easter Aquhorthies submitted by TheCaptain on 31st Jul 2017. The beautiful stone circle, almost complete, is contained within a little circular walled enclosure, a bit like Boscawen-un, which has probably helped the survival of this sublime place.
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Log Text: A couple of miles to the west of Inverurie, in some very rural farmland, is the Easter Aquhorthies stone circle. There is a little parking area from which it is a few hundred metres walk aup the lane to the circle. While I was visiting, the local farmer was out with the BT men having his line fixed or adjusted so that he can get a proper broadband connection, if only I could get such a service. The beautiful stone circle, almost complete, is contained within a little circular walled enclosure, a bit like Boscawen-un, which although it has probably helped the survival of this sublime place, makes photography difficult. Unlike many of the others I have seen today, this one is well cared for by the Scottish authorities, and all looking very tidy. Beautiful.