Dozmary Pool

Nearest town:
Liskeard (11km SE)
OS reference:
SX194745
OS sheet:
201
Latitude:
50° 32' 30.18 N
Longitude:
4° 32' 56.93 W
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Image of Dozmary Pool (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by Crazylegs14

The bottomless pool at Dozmary, last resting place of Excalibur, in Winter.

Image credit: Dozmary Pool-Tim Knight-Secret Landscape Photography
Crazylegs14
Crazylegs14 Jun 30, 2015

Articles

Dozmary Pool

Sacred hill bordering pool up for auction

Mr Hamhead
Mr Hamhead Sep 10, 2005

Brown Gelly, the hill to the south of Dozmary Pool goes up for auction on the 27th September. On the hill are several barrows plus iron age settlements. The land has recently become open access land, before that access to the hill was never clear. The guide price for 240 acres of prime Bodmin Moor is £220,000...The save Brown Gelly fund starts here!

For more info go to..

http://212.50.188.105/cgi-win/vebra.cgi?details1?src=vebra&PropertyCode=1431011/LANDA/18780/11

Dozmary Pool

Mr Hamhead
Mr Hamhead Jan 12, 2005

10.45pm 11th Jan 2005

Returning back across the moors from a meeting at Jamaica Inn, as I rounded the corner before reaching the turn off to the pool, a large barn owl swooped down and flew along in the in front of the car. it then turned to the left and dissapeared over towards the pool.

I just had to stop the car and get out. All around was black, a faint crescent of moon shining through thin cloud, the only sound that of the wind blowing across the bleak moor. The owl had gone, somewhere to my left sat the pool but it was too dark to make out anything.

As I went to get back into the car I heard a hoot from somewhere in the darkness....

Dozmary Pool

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IanT Mar 9, 2004

Having lived in the area I had heard all about the legends of Dozmary Pool being bottomless and the last resting place for Excalibur.

A pre-teenage swimming party by myself and friends in 1983 in a bid to search for excalibur revealed that the pool was not bottomless and the bed littered with bottles of wine.

A local legend has it that the name of the pool comes from Dozy Mary, a lazy minded girl who was murdered here.

Dozmary Pool

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stewartb May 3, 2003

This is said by some to be where Bedwyr (Bedevere) returned Excalibur to the Ladies of the Lake after the death of King Arthur at the battle of Camlann.

One of my favourite memories of it is when I tried to drive a Fiat Panda right down to the waterside and got it stuck.

In my defence I must say that this was a very long time ago

Folklore

Dozmary Pool
Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork
pure joy
pure joy Mar 19, 2003

Jan Tregeagle was reputed to be an evil lawyer who sold his soul to the Devil, as a result of which his ghost was given endless tasks by clergymen in an attempt to save it. one of these tasks was to empty Dozmary Pool (said to be bottomless) with a leaky limpet shell.

This atmospheric pool is also one of many places where Sir Bedivere is reputed to have throw away the sword Excalibur at King Arthur’s command as he lay dying, with a hand emerging from the water to grasp the weapon.

Miscellaneous

Dozmary Pool
Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork
Mr Hamhead
Mr Hamhead Jun 18, 2008

Dozmare Pool is, next to Loe Pool, the largest
sheet of sweet water in Cornwall. It abounds in
fish, and was formerly a great resort of the worker
in flint, as innumerable traces of the industry testify.
Arrow- and spear-heads, scrapers, and an almost
unlimited amount of chips and flakes may be found
near it. In the lake is a cranogue, or subaqueous
cairn, on which was formerly a palafite dwelling.
The bottom of the pool is certain to richly repay
exploration.
(S Baring Gould, Book of Cornwall 1899)

Miscellaneous

Dozmary Pool
Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork
pure joy
pure joy Mar 19, 2003

‘Bodmin Moor’s Archaelogical Heritage’ by Peter Herring and Peter Rose (Cornwall Archaelogical Unit – 2001), says that “Hundreds of flint tools, including tiny microliths, have been found on the shores of this tarn like lake, a focal point of mesolithic hunting and gathering activity on the Moor”

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