The ruins are those of a 15th century chapel and hermitage where the legend tells that the leper, St. Gonand lived.
You may regonise the site from the Omen film “The Final conflict”
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The dramatic granite outcrop of Roche Rock is on the south side of the village of Roche, which itself lies on the north side of the St. Austell china clay area.
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1mile N of A30 at Goss Moor
This magnificent Iron Age Celtic Fort dates from about the 2nd or 3rd Century BC. It consists of three concentric circles, of ditch and rampart , 850 feet above sea level . It is said to be one of the most important examples of its kind in the SW ; and some people speak of the legend that it was the place where Cador , Duke of Cornwall and husband of King Arthur’s mother, met his untimely death. It has a car park and picnic area.
Mid-summer is celebrated here annually with a hilltop bonfire
I have only read about this stone in local history books. I know the sight is near Devil’s Quoit very very little is known about locally.
There is a ref to the site at users.globalnet.co.uk/~tomgreen/folkgazt.htm
The stone is now lost but local legend says that this stone was once close the the Devil’s Quoit on the edge of Goss moor. The large stone was said to be deeply imprinted with the four horseshoes but the stone was overturned by tresure seekers.
The stone hasn’t been seen in living memory.
There is local legend that King Arthur lived at Castle-an-Dinas and nearby Goss moor was known as King Arthurs hunting ground.
Also known as “The Old man” or “The Blind Fiddler”
Nine Maidens stone row, St. Columb Major.
The finest stone row in Cornwall.
SW 93636754 – 93696763
In 1605 Richard Carew said:-
Wade bridge deliuereth you into waste ground, where 9 long and great stones called The sisters stand in a ranke together, and seem to have been so pitched, for continuing the memory of somewhat, whose notice is yet enuied vs by time.
Richard Carew’s Survey of Cornwall 1605
