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Bogee Barrow A Round Barrow(s) |
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Bogee Barrow B Round Barrow(s) |
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Bogee Farm Round Barrow(s) |
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Castle-an-Dinas (St. Columb) Hillfort |
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Devil's Quoit Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech |
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Hensbarrow Round Barrow(s) |
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Higher Tregolls Round Barrow(s) |
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Higher Trevibban Round Barrow(s) |
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King Arthur's Stone Standing Stone / Menhir |
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The Long Stone Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Magi Stone Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Men Gurta Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Pawton Quoit Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech |
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Pennatillie Round Barrow(s) |
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Prince Parc Round Barrow(s) |
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Roche Rock Natural Rock Feature |
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St Breock Beacon Kistvaen Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech |
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St Breock Downs Menhir Standing Stone / Menhir |
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St Breock Wind Farm Barrow Round Barrow(s) |
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Tregoss Moor Round Barrow(s) |
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Castle-an-Dinas (St. Columb) (Hillfort) — Folklore |
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The fort is mentioned in a miracle play written down in 1504: 'Beunans Meriasek' - the Life of St Meriasek. It's been suggested that it's a subversively anti-English. It was written in Cornish, which few toffs would understand, and the villain is called Teudar, which sounds remarkably like Tudor. Teudar is an invader who is reigning by force. Meriasek says he needs baptising but Teudar isn't having it and wants Meriasek hanged. The saint is warned in a vision and hides easily from Teudar's soldiers under a rock, consecrating the spring there to cure the insane, and then runs off to Britanny. The second part of the play introduces Teudar's nemesis, the Duke of Cornwall, who vows to get rid of Teudar for having driven away the saint. Me yv duk in oll kernowPydar is one of the hundreds of Cornwall. You can see the play here in Whitley Stokes' translation, published 1872. There is much interesting discussion of it here in J P D Cooper's 'Propaganda and the Tudor State' (2003). |
Posted by Rhiannon22nd April 2013ce |
Pawton Quoit (Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech) — Fieldnotes |
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Yaaaay! somewhere else I haven't been before. The list gets smaller still. Probably one of the lesser known of Cornwall's quoits. The Lands end quoits are a bit holidayish, but even though its only four and nine miles from Padstow and Newquay respectively, Pawton quoit takes a bit of finding, there's not very good access either, and in the summer the ferns get high. All in all making it a bit lesser known than others. I parked in the space before a little used gate at the north east corner of the chamber's field, left the kids in the car and walked back up the road to where a scramble place has been carved over the field wall, deftly jumping over it I entered the field of choice and jogged over. Time was short and the sun was going down upon a long day that still had a nearly three hundred mile drive to finish with. Since I first put this site on my list more pictures have been added on here, but none of them show how big the mound is on which the quoit sits. Even without the stone chamber I would still have made a special visit just to see the barrow if it were closer to home, it's really quite large. But then I didn't get many of it either, just a couple with the sun going down behind it, and then just time enough to walk all the way round it hand draped affectionately across the stones. A gander underneath the whopper capstone, then came the car beeps. Time for a couple of minutes inspecting the quartz veins running through it, a theme for the day, and looking round the vista the capstone points to, then another beep. Damn! it's time to go. |
Posted by postman12th February 2013ce |
Pawton Quoit (Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech) — Images (click to view fullsize) |
       
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Posted by postman 12th February 2013ce |
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