Treveneague Fogou (Miscellaneous by chris s)
I watched a re-run of Time Team the other day, and, whilst busy dowsing the fogou at Lamorna, they sent the geophysics team to look for this lost fogou. The site turned up on results! I assume this was...
View ArticleCarwynnen Quoit (Miscellaneous by chris s)
There're the stirrings of a local campaign to get this re-erected according to a recent correspondence in the West Briton newspaper. I for one would like to see it happen, it being the only quoit in...
View ArticleCarwynnen Quoit (Miscellaneous by chris s)
Website for a local campaign group: http://www.savependarvesquoit.weebly.com
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Trink Hill (Fieldnotes by chris s)
Twelve O'Clock Rock (as it is named on the OS sheets) also somewhat dominates the skyline eastward across St. Ives Bay, and despite its relatively diminutive size, can easily be picked out from the...
View ArticleMen Amber (Fieldnotes by chris s)
An odd one this...in that I'd been for many years aware of the feature from afar without ever really being able to place it satisfactorily in close up. Men Amber is a granite tor on the most westerly...
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Nine Maidens of Boskednan (Folklore by chris s)
An interesting trail of possible etymological corruption was noted by the Lamorna resident and surrealist painter Ithell Colqhuhoun in her "Living Stones of Cornwall" (1952)... "Searching the Boskednan...
View ArticleTolmen Stone (Constantine) (Folklore by chris s)
...I visited also the Maen Pol, a huge egg-shaped mass raised on end by a low platform in the middle of another farmyard. Once it was partnered by a monolith still taller: if you follow the muddy track...
View ArticleTolvan Holed Stone (Folklore by chris s)
"As far as I know there is only one other stone beside the Men-an-Tol through which one squeezes as a specific, this being the Tolven stone at the back of a farm in the Helford River area, sited on a...
View ArticleTregeseal (Folklore by chris s)
"I should not choose to walk the moor at night; but a neurotic modern would have had nothing to fear on that sunny September morning. Nevertheless, it was with a sensation, not entirely pleasant, of...
View ArticleCrowan Beacon (Fieldnotes by chris s)
Shallow tor topped by a large cairn, unfortunately, like Chapel Carn Brea, somewhat wrecked by a WWII observation post, but still evident.
View ArticleCornwall (Folklore by chris s)
GARRACK ZANS - VILLAGE RITUAL STONES Whilst scouring my lil' collection of Cornish literature for any interesting references to visits, folklore &c, I found the following in William Bottrell's...
View ArticleThe Tinners Way (Miscellaneous by chris s)
As outlined in Criag Weatherhill's "Belerion" (1981) this track ran between St. Just and St. Ives just south of the main ridge escarpment and passing close by an exhaustive list of the main sites of...
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Carvannel Menhir (Fieldnotes by chris s)
I think this is definitely a hitherto unrecorded menhir - and a gurt beauty it is too! Noticed it on a meander around the lesser known paths of the northern Carnmenellis district just last week. Some 7...
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