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The descent to the sacred well – where due to inadequate illumination nothing much was seen or photographed! :(
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The brooding presence of Carreg Cennen March 2018 on a distinctly wet and gloomy day.
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Pentre Ifan March 2018 Carnedd Meibion Owen cairns beyond.
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Carnedd Meibion Owen cairns (King Owen and his three sons) from Pentre Ifan March 2018
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Pentre Ifan March 2018 – Carnedd Meibion Owen cairns beyond.
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Pentre Ifan March 2018 with Carnedd Meibion Owen cairns on the hillside to the left and Mynydd Carningli hill fort to the right.
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The spectacular view from Mitchell’s Fold. March 2018
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Mitchell’s Fold was very cold March 2018. Snow all the way up (though you can’t see much of it here) and a biting, icy wind that turned us blue.
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Mitchell’s Fold March 2018. Very bleak. VERY cold.
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Arthur’s Stone, sunset 7th March 2018.
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Arthur’s Stone, sunset 7th March 2018
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Arthur’s Stone – sunset, 7th March 2018. Reputedly the inspiration for C. S. Lewis’ ‘Stone Table’ on which the Lion Aslan is bound and killed in ‘The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe’. The Stone Table breaks (like the broken capstone) and Aslan’s body disappears.
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I think it’s taken me this long since our visit to Cornwall yet again, to properly absorb this place. It haunts me. If I’d followed my instincts over the years id have walked the dragons back long before now..only ever viewing it from a car driving past.
Viewing it on tma i knew I’d wasted a lot of time. It was a glorious September day. We walked from the pub. The gently sloping field down to a monster of a place. It is truly monumental. On one side of the cliff roaring raging sea & the other side calm rolling waves. We alternated between being blasted with delicious sea spray & an absolute wind blasting roar to calm white topped rollling waves with seals playing in the swell all in the span of a few metres. Truly amazing. Looking up & down the ridges of this place it appeared to me as a dragons back. I saw what I presumed was a concoction of arranged stones on the way & then thought how could this be a place to inhabit for any time. But sitting & drifting away under the shelter of the uppermost rocks, choosing wether or not to be blasted or becalmed depending on which side of the outcrop i chose was astonishing to me. I know this is presumably a defensive hill fort but this place sent me into a trance with its absolute beauty. It was a particularly balmy day; I’d still tackle it when slippy but be very careful, those spines could be vicious:)
Part of Fernacre (very difficult to capture much of it in frame!) 21/9/2017
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Stone Row between Rough Tor & Brown Willy (right) 21/9/2017
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Skaill Bay – once a closed loch & fresh water source for the Skara Brae residents (until the sea broke in)
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Last look through the ‘window’ at Skara Brae. May 2017
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Skara Brae House 5 – May 2016
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