Nine Maidens of Boskednan Stone Circle

From William Copeland Borlase’s ‘Naenia Cornubiae’, 1879.
archive.org/stream/naeniacornubiaed00borluoft#page/280/mode/1up

Image credit: W.C.B.

Rhiannon Apr 2, 2015

thesweetcheat Apr 2, 2015 13:40

My favourite. The fallen stone on the left has been re-erected now.

tjj Apr 2, 2015 18:40

A fabulous series of sketches Rhiannon. Thanks for putting them up on TMA.

Rhiannon Apr 2, 2015 21:27

It's a pleasure, and it helps that Mr Borlase makes it very easy to work out which ones they are, June! His Irish book is on the Internet Archive too but I'm not so good at identifying those, there are so many and I don't recognise the names.

tjj Apr 3, 2015 15:42

Thanks Rhiannon, I'll have a look to see if I recognise anything. I only really know the stone circles in West Cork and the Beara Peninsula.

thesweetcheat Apr 3, 2015 16:34

Naenia Cornubiae is a great book, I have a reprinted version from about 15 years ago. I didn't realise WC Borlase travelled to Ireland. I think he was the grandson of the earlier (more famous) William Borlase. I've only ever seen one copy of *his* Cornwall book and it was mighty expensive.

ryaner Apr 3, 2015 18:36

If you post the link Rhiannon I would enjoy trying to figure some of them out.

Rhiannon Apr 4, 2015 11:25

Here you are, Ryaner, happy browsing -

archive.org/details/texts?and[]=borlase+dolmens&sort=titleSorter

I think he travelled all over the place so there are even sections about stones in India and Africa.