prehistoric

Recharge your batteries with a walk out along the lane at Lower Bosullow past Men Scrifa and Men an Tol, and then up the hill in view of Carn Galver, Hannibal's Carn and the Little Galver to Nine Maidens. There is something wild, elemental and primitive about the landcape here apart from these...

This 'Men Skrifa' or 'Stone [of] Incription' bears one of names of the first Cornish people we know of: 'Rialobrani Cunovali Fili', a Latin inscription showing this to be the monument of Rialobran, son of Cunoval. There is another like this at Bleu Bridge, Gulval. These are probably chieftains...

This 'Men Skrifa' or 'Stone [of] Incription' bears one of names of the first Cornish people we know of: 'Rialobrani Cunovali Fili', a Latin inscription showing this to be the monument of Rialobran, son of Cunoval. There is another like this at Bleu Bridge, Gulval. These are probably chieftains...

This 'Men Skrifa' or 'Stone [of] Incription' bears one of names of the first Cornish people we know of: 'Rialobrani Cunovali Fili', a Latin inscription showing this to be the monument of Rialobran, son of Cunoval. There is another like this at Bleu Bridge, Gulval. These are probably chieftains...

Like Lescudjack Castle (which was bigger) and Trencrom (smaller), Chun Castle is a hilltop fortress dating from about 500 BC. It has two stone walls and ditches encircle the summit of the hill. The entrances are staggered to make it harder for the enemy to enter. 'Chun' is a Cornish name derived...

Like Lescudjack Castle (which was bigger) and Trencrom (smaller), Chun Castle is a hilltop fortress dating from about 500 BC. It has two stone walls and ditches encircle the summit of the hill. The entrances are staggered to make it harder for the enemy to enter. 'Chun' is a Cornish name derived...

Like Lescudjack Castle (which was bigger) and Trencrom (smaller), Chun Castle is a hilltop fortress dating from about 500 BC. It has two stone walls and ditches encircle the summit of the hill. The entrances are staggered to make it harder for the enemy to enter. 'Chun' is a Cornish name derived...

Like Lescudjack Castle (which was bigger), Chun Castle is a hilltop fortress dating from about 500 BC. It has two stone walls and ditches encircle the summit of the hill. The entrances are staggered to make it harder for the enemy to enter. 'Chun' is a Cornish name derived from 'Chi Woen' or...

Like Lanyon Quoit, this was, I understand, once a burial mound with the mortal remains of the cremated skeleton of some chieftain in a bussa or earthenware pot protected by these huge stones. The tombs were long ago ransacked for the chief's golden bracelets or other treasures though such things...

It was not possible to take a photograph which encompasses the whole stone circle. My wife and I had a timed race round the circle. Pity I can't show you the video clip of me triumphing!

As Treeve has previously pointed out in another pic, this quoit (formerly a burial place under a mound of soil) was tall enough to permit a horse rider to pass under without banging his head. I have read that it was lightning that struck it in the early 19th century that reduced its height when...

A Cornish name (Bosscawenwoen 1319) meaning = Dwelling(Bos) [of] elder trees (scaw) [on the] downs (an woen). The circle is not far from Crows an Wra.

Presumably this stone was intended to lean though this is not certain, I believe. People talk of their having been constructed to harness some sort of poorly-understood powers such as the sun or the interconnecting circuitry of ley lines between ancient monuments, but this is beyond my...

A Cornish name (Bosscawenwoen 1319) meaning = Dwelling(Bos) [of] elder trees (scaw) [on the] downs (an woen). Someone ('new age' worshipper with Christian leanings?) has evidently placed a gift for Mother Earth under the inclined centre stone of this stone circle.

Sun worshipper! This stone circle bears a Cornish name (Bosscawenwoen 1319) meaning = Dwelling (Bos) [of] elder trees (scaw) [on the] downs (an woen).