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Walk and talk by Cornwall Heritage TrustWalk: Castle-an-Dinas Sun 25 July 13.30 & 16.00 Meet at car park on the hill, Castle-an-Dinas, near St. Columb Major Gentle walk around this magnificent hill with its Iron Age fort revealing its history through time. Cornwall Heritage Trust - 01872 572725 info@cornwallheritagetrust... continues... |
Posted by Chance5th July 2010ce |
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Ancient stone covered over "brand new panoramic plate" erected by "Cornish Heritage" now totally obliterates the ancient stone that is associated with the barrow on the summit of Caste an Dinas. To see the stone as it was... http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/image.php?image_id=15532 |
Posted by phil 25th June 2003ce Edited 26th June 2003ce |
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Visited 16.4.12 This is a cracker of a site and well worth a visit. Access is easy as the Hillfort is sign posted and there is a rough car park which is reached via an equally rough track. It is at the back of some farm buildings. The walk from the car park up to the site only takes about 5 minutes. The Hillfort is well preserved with 3 sets of ramparts ranging in height from 2 metres to 4 metres. The two Barrows in the middle of the site have certainly seen better days but at least they are still with us. Both of the Barrows are about 0.5 metres high and 10 metres across. One of the Barrows has a large stone lying in it. There are good views to be had in all directions. As with every other site I visited in Cornwall this week I had the place to myself. |
Posted by CARL 27th April 2012ce |
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Thi is another of those sites in Cornwall that I have past many times but never bothered to explore.....and another that after you make the effort you ask yourself why you have never done it before. Castle-an-Dinas is LARGE! Easy to reach just off the A30...which will shortly be closer to it when the new road opens...there is a handy carpark so that even those who do not want to walk far can access the site. The whole place is full of history, not just the Iron Age fortress but also the 20th century wolfram mine buildings that flank the car park. But it is the prehistory that will entice those who read this... Fingerposts now guide you around the castle to preserve banks that have been badly eroded over the years by those who head straight for the top. Follow the posts, its worth it, you get to see far more of the site...in fact I would reccommend walking around in circles until you have done them all.... Once in the centre of the fort you will notice at least two mounds, all that remain of earlier tumuli, and a pond and eveidence of excavation, from a later period. I am sure the views on a good day are fantastic, it was a little hazy when I was there....good excuse to return! Was this THE Iron Age castle of Cornwall?, I think it's the biggest...and being central between both coasts I think it must be. The hill fort at St Dennis is just across Goss Moor where evidence of Bronze Age tin streaming has been found. Beyond St Dennis the China Clay waste tips have obliterated any other prehistory many years ago but to the north the Nine maidens and Pawton Quoit are not far away.... But I waffle....make a detour when heading west..climb to the top and take in Cornwall...its worth it. |
Posted by Mr Hamhead10th April 2007ce |
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Castle-an-Dinas (Restormel District) - 24.12.2002 SW945624 - Not to be confused with the Castle-an-Dinas in Penwith (Land's End) this magnificent hill fort is well signposted from the road that runs past it, just West of Providence (Cornwall has some great hamlet names). From this road, a steep-ish rough lane takes you up to a rough car park. Then it's a short walk up to the hill fort. The Cornwall Heritage Trust took over the site in 1988 and have recently put up info boards at the car park and up towards the fort. They also unveiled a brand new panoramic plate in the interior of the fort in June 2002, which amongst other local landmarks, points out the Nine Maidens Stone Row three miles to the North. This massive Iron Age hill fort (thought to be occupied circa 400BC to 150 AD) has stunning views all around, excellent multiple ramparts, and stands at 700 feet above sea level. Two Bronze Age barrows are which the interior, the North one of which (near to the panoramic plate) is now a hollow with a stone lying in it. |
Posted by pure joy8th January 2003ce Edited 8th January 2003ce |
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1mile N of A30 at Goss Moor This magnificent Iron Age Celtic Fort dates from about the 2nd or 3rd Century BC. It consists of three concentric circles, of ditch and rampart , 850 feet above sea level . It is said to be one of the most important examples of its kind in the SW ; and some people speak of the legend that it was the place where Cador , Duke of Cornwall and husband of King Arthur's mother, met his untimely death. It has a car park and picnic area. Mid-summer is celebrated here annually with a hilltop bonfire |
Posted by phil 28th October 2001ce |
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Tradition assigns [King Arthur a] Cornish castle as a hunting seat, viz. the old earth-round of Castle-an-dinas, near St. Columb, from whence it is said he chased the wild deer on Tregoss Downs.p87 in Cornish Folk-Lore. Part II [Continued] M. A. Courtney The Folk-Lore Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2. (1887), pp. 85-112. |
Posted by Rhiannon17th November 2006ce |
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Castle an Dinas was mentioned briefly by Richard Carew in his 1600s 'Survey of Cornwall':Neere to Belowdy, commonly, & not vnproperly, termed Beelowzy, the top of a hill is enuironed with deep treble trenches, which leaue a large playne space in the midst: they call it Castellan Danis... and it seemeth (in times past) to haue bin a matter of moment, the rather, for that a great cawsey (now couered with grasse) doth lead vnto it.Online courtesy of Project Gutenberg at http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext06/srvcr10.txt |
Posted by Rhiannon 16th July 2006ce Edited 16th July 2006ce |
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