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Looking SSW.

The impressive SW cairn.

Looking inland, Chapel Carn Brea hill can be just seen on the skyline to the right of centre. The in-situ stones on the NW of the kerb (see Miscellaneous post) are on the left in the picture.

Showing the stones of the kerb. GF looks at the view instead.

Looking WSW towards The Longships lighthouse.

Escalls Cliff cairn, with The Brisons out to sea on the right.

The blocked chamber.

The mound, with some possibly random additions on top.

In its landscape, with the “first and last hill”, Chapel Carn Brea behind.

The chamber’s kind of trashed, but there’s more of the mound left than I expected.

Close-up of the central section of the mound, from the east side.

The natural rock outcrop at the southern end of the mound.

Showing some of the visible slabs on the west side of the mound.

Looking north along the mound, showing the position in the relation to the topograph on Chapel Carn Brea.

Looking south along the mound.

The long cairn, looking SW towards Sennen and Lands End. The south end of the cairn is a natural rock outcrop.

Chapel Cairn Brea cairn and cist, glorious midsummer.

These large slabs lie just to the SW of the mound – presumably they were part of the monument.

Looking out from the secondary cist chamber, Midsummer’s Day.

Inside the chamber of the secondary cist.

Looking NE. The capstone of the secondary cist is visible on the right, at the base of the cairn mound.

The massive cairn covering the earlier entrance grave. I’m not sure whether the “wall” in the foreground is recent reconstruction or part of the original cairn’s inner retaining walls.

Close-in view from SSE.

Zoom on The Logan Rock.

Close-in view from the east. The Logan Rock is in the centre of the picture.

As part of TMA’s occasional series of wildlife sightings pics, I present St Michael’s Mount with dolphins (which swam right under our boat a few minutes later).

The end of the journey.

In midsummer vegetation.

Enormous (and suspiciously megalithic) gatepost, on byroad between Trevorgans Cross and Bunker’s Hill Farm.

Looking NW to the sacred hills of Chapel Carn Brea and Bartinne.

Looking south to St Buryan, Boscawen-Un circle is over to the left, but largely obscured by vegetation.

This is another of those great stones that looks completely different from each side. Looking west.

Looking south towards the lane leading to Boscawen-Un circle.

The central stone, with the quartz stone behind it.

A privilege, having this wonderful circle to myself in brilliant midsummer weather.

Boscawen, midsummer. What could be finer?

Might not be in the best location, but this is a great stone.

Difficult to miss this one on the footpath leading off the A30.

Looking NE-ish.

In perfect summer weather.

Don’t you love stones that are a completely different shape from each angle?

The thin (SW) side.

Looking SW to St Buryan, the church tower is visible in the centre of the picture.

Yellow lichen on the NW stone.

The wonderfully shaped SE stone.

Looking north under blue skies and telephone wires.