Some scale for the neat cist at SN98870106.
Image credit: A. Brookes (10.7.2015)
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Cist in cairn at SN98870106.
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Cist in the cairn at SN98870106.
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Cairn with cist at SN98870106, isolated to the northwest of the rest of the cairnfield.
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Landscape context for the cairn and nearby settlement of Mynydd Cefn-y-gyngon, across the upper Dar valley.
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Hard to believe four years have passed since we last came to Merry Maidens.
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Lovely clouds over Boskednan.
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Detail of the structure at the base of the summit outcrop.
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Looking towards Nine Maidens Downs and Ding Dong. Mounts Bay beyond, with the dark line of the Lizard on the horizon.
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Likely to be another kerb stone, displaced at the base of the cairn. Looking SW across the West Penwith moors.
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The approach to the main summit cairn. The surrounding gorse/heather mix makes any step off the narrow path very hard work.
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Well-preserved walling.
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Looking across the site interior. Morvah church tower is just visible as a dot rising above the surroundings on the right, with the Atlantic beyond.
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Walling on the northwestern side. Watch Croft rises behind.
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Into the round through its entrance.
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Found a couple of fields west of Crousa Common stones. It looks worked to me, but I’ve no clue about these things. Anyone?
Image credit: A. Brookes (23.6.2015)
The happily not fallen eastern stone.
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The sadly fallen western stone.
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Natural outcrop or otherwise, what a great site!
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The Three Brothers, much clearer of gorse these days due to the volunteer site clearances.
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There are lots of big slabs scattered about the area around the Three Brothers.
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Looking towards Cruc Draenoc round barrow.
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A bit different to the blue skies of Ravenfeather’s visit a few days later.
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Kerb stone on the barrow at SW72572122.
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Large round cairn at SW72572122, immediately north of Dry Tree menhir.
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The ancient/modern juxtaposition is impossible to avoid here.
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The gorse and heather encased flank of the barrow at SW72522158.
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Sizable round barrow at SW72522158, which had a brick gun emplacement inserted in its top in WW2.
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Looking towards the barrow at SW72442168, centre of shot. The intervening 100m was a shin-shredding nightmare of gorse and brambles, so I didn’t bother going any closer (poor).
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