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Caer Vallack Enclosure |
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Chynhalls Point Cliff Fort |
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Crousa Common Menhirs Standing Stone / Menhir |
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1 site Dry Tree Menhir Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Gear Enclosure |
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Giants Quoits |
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Halliggye Fogou Fogou |
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Hervan Menhir Standing Stone / Menhir |
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1 site Higher Boden Fogou Fogou |
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Kynance Gate Settlement Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork |
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Lankidden Cliff Fort |
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Poldowrian Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork |
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The Rill Cairn(s) |
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Three Brothers of Grugith Cist |
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Tolven Holed Stone Holed Stone |
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Traboe Round Barrow(s) |
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Tremenhere Menhir Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Higher Boden Fogou — Links |
Archaeology Data ServiceIntroduction and a link to James Gossip's paper (click on 'downloads) which describes the fogou and its rediscovery. |
Posted by Rhiannon2nd August 2011ce |
Halliggye Fogou — Fieldnotes |
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Visited on 21st July 2011. We parked at the English Heritage car park just off the road. It's more of a lay by really but has two EH info boards with photos, information and artists impressions of how the Fogou may have fitted into a larger settlement. My first visit inside was with my two year old Daughter, she loved the walk up across the field and on approaching the Fogou started shouting Macca Paccas house, Macca Paccas house! On entering she just wanted to run off into the creep passage and was really excited by the place. My nerve wasn't quite as strong as hers though so that was the end of her adventure for this time, and so back to the car and to Mum and little brother for her! On my second visit I stayed much longer and really got to take in the vibe of the place. As written here earlier the dark is all consuming, my torch almost extinguished by pure and total darkness. I explored all the passage ways alone and in almost complete silence, my breathing at first fast and loud as I climbed in through the small creep passages. Once I'd settled down a little though I could really start to take in the place. So torch off, sitting on the stumbling stone, time for a meditation on the place. On opening my eyes there was no difference than having them closed. Pitch black. Then I started to make sense of the layout and curve to the passages, not exactly but if I followed the lines of the curve I could see it worked. It was more like curved straight lines in the center that I could see that led me back to the main passage way. A strange phenomenon. A powerful place this Fogou. |
Posted by texlahoma1st August 2011ce |
Halliggye Fogou — Images (click to view fullsize) |
     
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Posted by texlahoma 25th July 2011ce |
Tremenhere Menhir (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Fieldnotes |
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Visited today, and in comparison with Hamish's photo, the stone is currently surrounded by a three feet wide moat of mud at least ten inches deep! I hope the stone is well bedded in. It's obviously being used as a rubbing stone by the horses in the field - their hoof prints were much in evidence in the mud, hence the depth estimation. Hopefully LAN will be able to do something about this when the drier weather comes. I'll be raising it with them later this week. |
Posted by ocifant7th March 2011ce |
Halliggye Fogou — Links |
Internet ArchiveIn the Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall (publ 1886) - twenty pages of Victorian descriptions and drawings. I was pleased to read (p301) that "Although difficult of entrance most of the company (including some of the ladies) scrambled into it, and made an inspection of it." Not bad considering you'd imagine women to be encumbered by what they were wearing in those days. And it sounds rather spooky. The description on p246 seems to show a thinly disguised horror of rats, heavy atmosphere, dankness, and a 'thick dark fog', not to mention the ankle-breakers on the floor. |
Posted by Rhiannon 6th March 2011ce |
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