This seems to be Penzance OCS and my guess is it was sometime in the 1980s.
This was somewhere in the Gulval/Eastern Green/Long Rock area, someone with more local knowledge than me can decide where exactly.
Yes, indeed, the Penzance OCS Crying the Neck ceremony was held at the end of the summer every year and usually in the harvested fields in the Golden Acre , as you say in the Gulval/Eastern Green area on a farm. I forget which and what the farmer s name was but, of course, the field was reached by walking a short distance along the road from Lanisley Hall, Gulval in a Ludgvan direction and turning into a field off to the right of the road. Golden Acre was and i suppose is, an extremely fertile south-facing site on account of centuries (I suspect) of sand and seaweed placed on the fields by farmers, a practice denied them nowadays because of its effect on the seashore around the Mount, for example. The benefits of this are debateble since jcbs are regularly called in to cast the smelly seaweed aside without collecting it, and the consequent effects of the rotting algae do more to kill wildlife than encourage it, according to one boatman I know.
An Tregher: Yma genef! Yma genef! Yma genef!
An Ra-crel: Pandr'us genes? Pandr'us genes? Pandr'us genes?
An Tregher: Pen Yar! Pen Yar! Pen Yar!
An Ra crel: Houra! Houra! Houra!
The Cutter: I have'n! I have'n! I have'n
The others: What have'ee? What have'ee? What have'ee?
The Cutter: A Neck! A Neck! A Neck!
The others: Hurrah Hurrah Hurrah
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