St Cleer Holywell
St Cleer Holy Well The St. Cleer holy well stands on the spot of a natural spring, and an ancient cross about 9 feet high stands a few feet from […]
Tag Archives: Bronze Age
The Secret Holy Well Of Menacuddle And The Druid’s Chair
Menacuddle Well Cornwall, is a land of legends, saints, holy wells and other mysteries. Before Christmas I came across a picture of Menacuddle Well, I hadn’t heard of it before […]
Merry Maidens
The Merry Maidens also known as Dawn’s Men (a likely corruption of the Cornish Dans Maen “Stone Dance”) is a late neolithic stone circle located 2 miles to the south […]
Constantine Island
Constantine Island holds a fascinating past. In 2007 a human skeleton was excavated from a cist grave (small stone-built box) dating back to the Bronze Age. Archaeologists concluded that the […]
Trevethy Quoit
What are Chamber Tombs or Quoits? “Quoit” is the Cornish name for a type of megalithic structure made up of a number of large stones set upright to sup- port […]
Bedruthan Steps to Mawgan Porth
The Carnewas Longstone is a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age Boundary marker and its marks the start of my walk from Bedruthan Steps to Mawgan Porth. The stone lies on its […]
Castle An Dinas
Castle an Dinas is an Iron Age hillfort at the summit of Castle Downs near St Columb Major in Cornwall, and is considered one of the most important hillforts in […]
Brea Hill
Brea Hill (Cornish: Bre, meaning hill) Brea Hill ( pronounced “Bray Hill”) is situated between Dammer Bay and Rock on the Camel Estuary, Padstow. The hill is 203 ft high and […]
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