Mr Hamhead
Looking southeast towards the china clay area from the eastern banks.
Looking northeast towards Brown Willy and Rough Tor from the summit.
Showing the result of recent work to infill the erosion around the stones.
Taken with telephoto from gateway. Inscription can just be made out on left side of stone.
This is a replacement for the earlier image that I have now deleated...taken in 1990. see notes below.
This cairn can be found north of St Bellarmins Tor (near the dissused quarry) At first it looks like just another ransacked cairn but on closer inspection you will notice it has a bank around it..more feelable underfoot than visual!
12.11.06 late afternoon
Not the easiest place to photograph...which is why there is a delay of about 4 years since my fieldnotes! This is the view from the north looking up at the settlement. The cliff drops away just beyond the bushes on the skyline. When I had walked the coast path previously I had not noticed the bank on the hillside, perhaps it was the light.
Northern row, flat on my belly (well as flat as I can get!) in the damp grass, stunning end to the day.
Two stones at the western end of the row.
As the sun sinks into the western sky...
the notch on the tor to the left of the picture is supposed to be where the sun dissapears on midsummer.
West into the setting sun. Merrivale quarry in the distance.
Looking north towards the road.
Look at the size of that stone! This is a hut circle on steroids!
The settlement at Merrivale spreads either side of the B3357. This enclosure wall is north of the road.
