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Hi all.

I'm after a few suggestions for sites to visit for a trip I'm planning.

I'm looking to go to Cornwall and Devon this September for a week. Mainly walking but would like to spend 2-3 days looking at old stuff. I've never been further south west than Glastonbury before.

What are the top 5-6 places I really should visit in this part of the world?

Thanks for any help

Blimey, that's a big area to come up with 5 or 6 sites!!

I'm only familiar with West Penwith really (and getting to know Dartmoor by inches). If you get as far as West Penwith, you can easily see a load of sites in one day. My recommend would be Tregeseal and Nine Maidens/Boskednan stone circles, both of which have other stuff near by, e.g. Kenidjack Common holed stones, Ballowall Barrow, Boswens Menhir, Watch Croft cairns and stone, Men Scryfa, Men-anTol (if you like other people at your sites).

Carn Euny is a great Iron Age settlement with (restored) fogou, Chysauster is better preserved but likely to be busier and the fogou is gated off. The "quoits" at Zennor, Mulfra and Chun are all excellent (Lanyon is a bit mobbed and close to the road for my taste). Boscawen-Un and Merry Maidens circles are excellent as well, I prefer the two circles mentioned above as they're on open moor, but you could get to all four in a good day. I know you like a nice hillfort, Chun and Trencrom are both excellent.

For Dartmoor, favourites would include White Moor stone circle, Down Tor/Hingston Down cairn circle and row, Yellowmead, Brisworthy stone circle, the amazing complex of rows, cairns and settlement at Drizzlecombe. Kiss in the Ring/The Dancers stone row/terminal circle is terrific, but quite remote.

Dartmoor is a must! Shovel Down, Scorhill, Grey Wethers...

Having lived around Dartmoor for 25 years, I would be a little biased. But my favourite sites are Whitmoor Circle (Little Hound Tor Circle) - a bit of a trek, but one of the best (if not THE best) circle you will ever visit, Scorhill Circle, Grey Wethers double circle (which can be combined with Fernworthy circle and Assycombe Row), Cosdon Stone Rows and Cosdon Beacon. Drizzlecombe rows, Brisworthy Circle, Shovel Down..... god, I could go on, the list is endless- but you would need much more than a week !!!
Then of course as TSC says - there's West Penwith - Boscawen Un, Merry Maidens, Men an Tol, Maen Scryfa, Chun Quoit, Mulfra Quoit, The Pipers of Boleigh, the Blind Fiddler...... Most of the sites in West Penwith are relatively easy to get to.
Oh.... and don't forget Bodmin Moor between Dartmoor and West Cornwall !!!!