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Trencrom seen from the creek below Phillack.

There are quite a few small stones scattered at the base of the cairn, maybe suggesting that the covering mound is getting a bit unstable. I’m not sure that the ever-growing gorse bush on the top will be helping.

Bit sunnier than when I last came four years ago.

Peg figurine and clouties near the well.

St Euny’s Well south.

Remains of a retaining kerb on the northwestern side of the cairn to the southeast of the enclosure.

Overgrown and badly damaged cairn on the southeastern slopes of Bartinne Downs.

The southeastern of the three ring cairns, very overgrown and difficult to see properly.

The northeastern of the three ring cairns inside the enclosure.

The well-defined western ring cairn.

The western ring cairn inside the enclosure.

Stone-lined pit inside the enclosure, which Craig Weatherhill identifies as a miner’s prospecting pit rather than a well.

The northwestern arc of the enclosure bank.

The overgrown bank of the enclosure.

Low cairn at SW43653521, downhill and ENE of the stone circle.

Summer solstice, Boskednan.

With cairn to the right.

Midsummer, looking across the moors to Ding Dong.

Looking towards Boswens menhir, silhouetted on the skyline.

There are many stones lying near to the circle – could some of these be from the mostly-destroyed second circle?

Summer Solstice at Tregeseal.

Poorly-preserved hut circle.

Hut circle interior.

Hut circle, looking north towards Roughtor.

What a great stone.

Looking north to Roughtor (centre) and Brown Willy (right of the upright).

Knotted mineral vein in the upright.

I’m definitely all for this being the remains of a quoit. The fact that there aren’t enough stones left to make one doesn’t seem that important. The one upright is massive and just the right height for balancing a capstone on. It’s also very unlike pretty much any ‘proper’ Cornish standing stones. Whatever it is, it’s a really good site to visit.

Hut circle levelled into the slope of the hill, on the western slopes above the road between Delford Bridge and Cassacawn.

Entrance into another hut circle.

Another hut circle, looking towards Roughtor and Brown Willy.

One of the many hut circles on Kerrow Downs.

Line of boulders remaining from the field system on the eastern part of the site.