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A little way roughly north of the enormous Garn Turne lies this even more obscure diminutive gem of a cromlech... as the Postie says, it really couldn't be more obscure if it tried. It really couldn't. After seeing several large tractors - or maybe the same one coming back and forth - trundling up the minor road with a giant raking apparatus attached, I decided to park at the entrance to Colston Farm to save my paintwork from further annihilation. Plenty of room here, and just a short way back down the road to the metal gate. Over this and the cute little chamber eventually materialises further downhill on the inside of the hedge. They really don't want you to find this one, do they? Postie obviously did a good job in the Monty Don stakes, but my feeble effort will need a lot of help pretty soon to save the structure being reclaimed by the Mother. Speaking of which, I was half expecting a gathering of ancient dudes to emerge from the towering cane crop to join me for lunch, such is the ethereal nature of this spot. Then again it could have been due to a bit too much caffeine intake, I suppose. Oh that orange lichen! Marvellous. Well worth the effort. |
Posted by GLADMAN23rd September 2009ce |
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If Carlsberg did unfindable dolmens it'd be this one, fortunately I love dolmens and beer. Starting at the picturesque bridge SM981284 go south and when the road goes uphill look for a farm track on your right immediatey after is a passing/parking place stop here, you wont know it but your about 6ft from the chamber. Ten feet further north look for a standing stone set in the hedge bank and you know your there. Now walk uphill untill reaching a large metal gate, over we go and then follow the hedge back downhill looking for a clump of bushes protruding from the hedge, it's in there. Rediculous, utterly without feeling did they treat this cute little dolmen, the road is less than a foot away the hedge and its bank goes right over/through it and whats left is at the mercy of brambles, bracken and young trees. That said I was pleased to find it looking almost intact, inside the chamber is soil upto one foot away from the underside of the capstone. It has what looks like curb stones on its northern side, one of which is a big quartz boulder. Get the time team in for gods sake. I pulled away a lot of the brambly stuff to better understand the place but it needs more than one bloke with only an hour to spare. Standing on the capstone one can see the car parked right next to it, its funny here, Ive never seen such a stealth dolmen,on one side of the hedge and it's "wow look at that" ,6ft the other side of the hedge and it's "what dolmen, watch out for the tractor". |
Posted by postman14th September 2008ce Edited 15th September 2008ce |
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