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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...

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!

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).