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A complete Iron Age village!
I first visited this site on a school trip in the late 1970's
It can be described as a classic site, the largest of the courtyard house villages, and one of the finest prehistoric villages to be found anywhere in Britain.
This site is well signposted and reached by the back road to New Mill which leaves the B3311 at Badgers Cross.
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Loved this site! Very easy to reach from the roadside although no direction signs .Very peaceful place only saw 2 other people. The church and henge are very accessable grass is kept very short. Earlier in the day we visited Badbury Rings hoping to find peace but found a heaving carpark and hoards of people walking off their Christmas dinners!
It seems the early Christians made a habit of taking over the old religious sites such as Knowlton Henge. This could be blamed on Pope Gregory who in 601 C.E. said..
"The temples of the idols in the said country ought not to be broken; but the idols alone which be in them . . . If the said temples be well built, it is needful that they be altered from the worshipping of devils into the service of the true God."
The is a good article on this subject at..
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/1999/3/15/article_01.htm
As you can guess from the URL, the site is Official Web Site of Jehovah’s Witnesses! but it makes interesting reading whatever you chose to believe.
Kernow Phil
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¼ mile west of Sancreed church, through the farmyard opposite the church and follow a path which swings north to a small
An enchanted site with a very impressive well, reached down a flight of steps. There is room to stand upright underground, next to the water.
Adjacent to the well are the remains of a chapel; the walls are about 4 feet high and several carved stones are lying around. A modern cross stands nearby.
The site is very atmospheric and has an air of sanctity lacking at other more famous sites.
http://www.bath.ac.uk/lispring/sourcearchive/fs3/fs3lh1.htm
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http://www.bath.ac.uk/lispring/sourcearchive/fs3/fs3lh1.htm
Reached by taking an overgrown track leading westward onto Tredinney Common from the Iron Age settlement at Carn Euny near Brane, two miles west of Sancreed. As this path begins to widen, after about 100 yards, the well is immediately on the left.
It consists of a flight of steps leading down to a clear spring in a stone lined recess with a large granite capstone.
Another smaller well lined with four large granite slabs lies a few feet to the north west and carved stones from the chapel which once stood here may be seen in the surrounding undergrowth.
Services were held at the well chapel during the 18th century and the site has only been neglected since then. The stonework of the well is still in a good condition.
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A Bronze Age Enclosure. The Bank and ditch, which are about 30 metres across and are well defined.
No public right of access but the site can be seen from the road through the gate which is only a few metres from the South West edge.
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Barely visable it seems to have virtually sunk in the peat!
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Easily approached by a public footpath from the lane between Pencarrow and Moorgate.
A tall (nearly 3 metres tall) granite stone stone with extensive views to west and south.
Just a couple of miles from Camelford.
This is the highest stone on the moor.
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In Cornish 'HYR' means 'Long' and 'Ven' means stone.
The stone once marked the boundary of Predannick moor.
It has since been encompassed by a housing estate. It now sits nicely in a shrubbery in someones back garden.
Can be viewed from the roadside.
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On the road from St. Clear to the Hurlers. A Christianised menhir?
The most phallic of all Cornish menhirs!
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The large unworked stone was shown as a boundary marker on the 1840 tithe map. It was erected in it's present position in 1932 by the Royal Cornwall Society in 1932.
Easy access. Can be found to the south of the airfield. It stands in a side road, slow down as you drive along because you may easily miss this one.
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Born in Cornwall 1966.
Main interests include Hillforts and barrows. I try to cover mainly Cornish sites but about five times a year get to visit Dorset where my wifes family live. Fairly keen on folklore and earth mysteries etc.
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