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: Iron 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 […]
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