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Sacred hill bordering pool up for auctionBrown Gelly, the hill to the south of Dozmary Pool goes up for auction on the 27th September. On the hill are several barrows plus iron age settlements. The land has recently become open access land, before that access to the hill was never clear. The guide price for 240 acres of prime Bodmin Moor is £220,000..... continues... |
Posted by Mr Hamhead11th September 2005ce |
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10.45pm 11th Jan 2005 Returning back across the moors from a meeting at Jamaica Inn, as I rounded the corner before reaching the turn off to the pool, a large barn owl swooped down and flew along in the in front of the car. it then turned to the left and dissapeared over towards the pool. I just had to stop the car and get out. All around was black, a faint crescent of moon shining through thin cloud, the only sound that of the wind blowing across the bleak moor. The owl had gone, somewhere to my left sat the pool but it was too dark to make out anything. As I went to get back into the car I heard a hoot from somewhere in the darkness.... |
Posted by Mr Hamhead 12th January 2005ce |
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Having lived in the area I had heard all about the legends of Dozmary Pool being bottomless and the last resting place for Excalibur. A pre-teenage swimming party by myself and friends in 1983 in a bid to search for excalibur revealed that the pool was not bottomless and the bed littered with bottles of wine. A local legend has it that the name of the pool comes from Dozy Mary, a lazy minded girl who was murdered here. |
Posted by IanT 9th March 2004ce |
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This is said by some to be where Bedwyr (Bedevere) returned Excalibur to the Ladies of the Lake after the death of King Arthur at the battle of Camlann. One of my favourite memories of it is when I tried to drive a Fiat Panda right down to the waterside and got it stuck. In my defence I must say that this was a very long time ago |
Posted by stewartb 3rd May 2003ce |
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Jan Tregeagle was reputed to be an evil lawyer who sold his soul to the Devil, as a result of which his ghost was given endless tasks by clergymen in an attempt to save it. one of these tasks was to empty Dozmary Pool (said to be bottomless) with a leaky limpet shell. This atmospheric pool is also one of many places where Sir Bedivere is reputed to have throw away the sword Excalibur at King Arthur’s command as he lay dying, with a hand emerging from the water to grasp the weapon. |
Posted by pure joy19th March 2003ce |
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Dozmare Pool is, next to Loe Pool, the largest sheet of sweet water in Cornwall. It abounds in fish, and was formerly a great resort of the worker in flint, as innumerable traces of the industry testify. Arrow- and spear-heads, scrapers, and an almost unlimited amount of chips and flakes may be found near it. In the lake is a cranogue, or subaqueous cairn, on which was formerly a palafite dwelling. The bottom of the pool is certain to richly repay exploration. (S Baring Gould, Book of Cornwall 1899) |
Posted by Mr Hamhead 18th June 2008ce |
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'Dosmery Pool amid the moores, On top stands of a hill; More than a mile about, no streams It empt, nor any fill' Richard Carew 16th Century. |
Posted by stubob28th March 2005ce Edited 29th March 2005ce |
| ‘Bodmin Moor’s Archaelogical Heritage’ by Peter Herring and Peter Rose (Cornwall Archaelogical Unit – 2001), says that “Hundreds of flint tools, including tiny microliths, have been found on the shores of this tarn like lake, a focal point of mesolithic hunting and gathering activity on the Moor” |
Posted by pure joy 19th March 2003ce |
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