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The Beacon Kerbed Cairn |
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The Beacon - possible barrow cemetery Barrow / Cairn Cemetery |
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Leskernick Cairn Cairn(s) |
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Leskernick Cist Cist |
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Leskernick North Circle Stone Circle |
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The Leskernick ‘Quoit’ Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech |
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Leskernick South Circle Stone Circle |
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Leskernick Stone Row Stone Row / Alignment |
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7 August 2004 Whilst hordes of holiday makers pour into Cornwall and spread themselves all over the beaches I head for the hills. This is my second visit to Leskernick...and this time I know what i'm looking for. I approach from Bolventor by taking the road to Codda and then following the footpath out onto the moor. As you go through the gate and out onto the hillside it is best to carry on straight ahead contouring around to Leskernick Farmhouse. From there head up into the settlement, I wonder how many people lived up here?. The "quoit" is on the western side of the hill and after visiting that head back over the top and look down upon the settlement. From here it is possible on a good day to spot both the stone circles and a path down through the huts leads to the northern one. Once you have found this the stone row lies diagonally to the left towards the humps and bumps of early mining work. The other stone circle lies just upslope to the right of the western end of the row. The low squareish humps you will come across all over the hillside are peat stack bases known as steeds or ricks. I have never seen so many in a small area anywhere else on the moor. |
Posted by Mr Hamhead8th August 2004ce Edited 23rd January 2011ce |
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Leskernick Complex - 3.4.2003 This is a fascinating area, with lots of not very obvious ancient sites, and lots of sites and possible sites still being discovered. I approached the whole Leskernick area from Westmoorgate (SX204804). At the very end of the road (next to the farm) there are 'no parking' signs everywhere so I respectfully returned 100m down the road and parked off the road just past two farm gates. The ‘foot path’ across the moor basically doesn’t exist, although there are several places where it is clear that people / animals / vehicles have gone. However, it’s not quite as bad as it sounds because you can take a rough bearing and you should get to the Leskernick area OK. You don’t need a huge degree of accuracy because once Leskernick Hill is in sight you then know approx where you are. Also I found that seeing anything from this flat land was very hard anyway. I would recommend either climbing Leskernick Hill or The Beacon (which is actually 40 metres higher, and a good way of not getting lost as you can follow the field walls all the way from Westmoorgate to the top if you wish) and getting an overview of the area. Although the map shows lots of settlements on the hill there seems to be other ‘things’ dotted around the lowlands as well. I wasn’t sure if they were remains of houses, or bowl barrows, or some sort of enclosure. They seem to be a rectangle or circle with a small darky coloured ditch around it and no ‘hump’ in the middle nor stones around. The rectangular one was the same as the one on East Moor (approx SX223778), which I couldn’t work out what it was and whether it was the ‘enclosure ‘ marked on the map. There are also cairns & possible barrows dotted around that aren’t on the OS map. The whole area between Leskernick Hill and The Beacon is like the surface of the moon (craters, gullies, marshes) and is a very harsh environment in many ways despite its green appearance. Although this side of the A30 is very different to East Moor on the other side (which is brown and strewn with gorse) these two places are the most inhospitable parts of the Cornish uplands that I have visited so far. Also twice whilst on the lower slopes of Leskernick Hill (a long time before the cows came long!) I heard very strong noises of horses galloping / an army charging, but nothing could explain this. There were lots of ponies around but they were just standing around eating grass. Spooky. This post appears as part of the weblog entry Another Kernow Week
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Posted by pure joy13th April 2003ce Edited 13th April 2003ce |
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| A book,"Stone Worlds" was published in 2007 by Left Coast Press. It details the excavations that took place in the late 1990s at Leskernick. It features several photos of stones wrapped in clingfilm and amongst the usual archaeological finds throws up some interesting...and unusual, theories. |
Posted by Mr Hamhead 1st October 2009ce |
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The Leskernick ProjectThis beautiful website will make your brain ache and your heart leap - proper archaeology? |
Posted by fitzcoraldo1st March 2005ce Edited 1st March 2005ce |
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Leskernick South Circle (Stone Circle) — Images (click to view fullsize) |
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Posted by GLADMAN11th February 2013ce |
Leskernick Cist — Images |
  
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Posted by Mr Hamhead 21st July 2011ce |
Leskernick Cist — Fieldnotes |
| Small cist sitting just outside the southernmost field boundary and just up from the farmhouse. Capstone seems to be lying beside. Easily found...even in heavy July growth. |
Posted by Mr Hamhead 21st July 2011ce |
The Leskernick ‘Quoit’ (Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech) — Images |
 
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Posted by GLADMAN 20th July 2010ce |
Summit Cairn (Cairn(s)) — Fieldnotes |
| The most northerly of the interesting features on the hill, the summit cairn is a jumbled assortment of rocks with one stone standing proud. |
Posted by Mr Hamhead 31st March 2008ce |
Summit Cairn (Cairn(s)) — Images |
 
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Posted by Mr Hamhead 31st March 2008ce |
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