This is the website of the Hunebed Center Museum at Great Borger.This post appears as part of the blog post " Hunebedden in Nederland" |
This is a web leaflet about Carn Euny you can download as a PDFThis post appears as part of the blog post " The Boleigh Working" |
Between Penzance and Lands End, Rosemerrynwood nestles in the sheltered Lamorna Valley, a mile from the sea at Lamorna Cove.
Bed and Breakfast is offered in the main house, Rosemerryn, which is a former artist's residence, built at the turn of the twentieth century. Rosemerryn Cottage, separate from the main house, but within the grounds, and with its own private garden, is available as a self-catering holiday cottage.
Fogou in LarmonaBoth the house and cottage are set in seven acres of woodland, which they share with a two thousand year old man made cave or temple, the Boleigh Fogou. This was once part of an iron-age settlement; just one of numerous such Ancient Celtic Sites to be found in the far west of Cornwall.
Lamorna woodsHaving once been cultivated, part of the wood is graced with beautiful camellias and azaleas, and huge rhododendrons. Natural pathways, bordered by daffodils, bluebells and irises follow a stream that tumbles down through the valley to reach the sea at Lamorna Cove.
Off the beaten track, and yet close to both Penzance and St Ives, as well as some beautiful sandy beaches and coves, Rosemerrynwood and cottages offer the perfect holiday setting.This post appears as part of the blog post " The Boleigh Working" |
"This chapel is built on a definite platform which could have been made originally for the pagan temple. But the chapel we see today was built in the expansionist 1300's. Wessex first became Christian around 800. It seems unlikely that a pagan temple could still be active 500 years after the conversion of Wessex to Christianity, so today's building presumably replaced an earlier Christian structure.
It would be interesting to try to guess the original pagan dedication. We suspect that Abbotsbury was the site of a Roman villa, if only because it is one of a small number of sites in Dorset - indeed in Britain - that are very fertile and have easy access to navigable water; in this case, the Fleet, a 10 mile stretch of semi-tidal water that runs behind the Chesil beach from Portland harbour. The Roman Army in Britain depended heavily on sea borne transport for its supplies, so Abbotsbury might have been a military farm providing grain for the garrisons at Exeter, Chester, Dover and Colchester. It is possible that the visible foundations of the medieval mill in the village are Roman. The Fleet is famous today as the home of a herd of swans who used to belong to the Abbey (a swan is theologically a fish and can be eaten on Friday). They are known to have lived here for at least 600 years."
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