Approaching Zennor Quoit on foot from the St Ives coastal path, this figure appeared - Rosewall Hill. It struck me immediately as being a Sleeping Beauty type-presence, but I haven't been able to find any information relating to it as that.
One thing that did shock me later, as we walked back along the road from Wicca to St Ives, was that the road goes straight across "her" neck. Which is a bit grim if you think about it, and I remember experiencing the same thing going along a road south of Dublin - a road straight over the neck of a recumbent hill figure. As far as I know, Cornwall was never really invaded or anything, but it seems like the sort of thing the Romans (or later invaders) might have done to upset the locals! Symbolically slitting the throat of the female hill figure. Hmm.
Just conjecture really, can't find any information to suggest that Rosewall Hill was ever known as a lady of the land, but from both sides "she" definitely gives that impression.This post appears as part of the weblog entry Visit to Land's End, 03-08/11/01ce |
Posted by Holy McGrail
9th November 2001ce
Edited 28th November 2002ce
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