Mr Hamhead
Looking up the cairn to the “headstone”, just right of centre...not large stone to left..
Sept 28 2006
Not the best day for photography. Cairn running downhill in near distance.
Looking north towards the village...one barrow in view.
Looking east cross the field as the sun set behind me..two barrows in view.
looking towards Roughtor, this stone is the most prominent..and I think the most southerly of the circle.
Low on the ground..in a featureless bit of the moor...not easy to find. Looking NW down the avenue 6.9.06
Full moon over Ginsters!...with partial eclipse..or is it obscured by pasty fumes?
7.9.06
Stowes pound from the west. The cheesewring clings to the side of the hill on the right hand side of the photo. The Hillfort takes upp the whole length of the hill.
..out of the mist...a mound appeared! Could this be the cairn I have tried so hard to reach for two years..would it be worth the the walk through thick mist and heavy dew?
No...not really.
I could only make out three lumps of granite...all looking randomly piled..whilst everywhere else infill obscures any remants of the original structure.
August in Cornwall! The mist only added to the gloomy feeling you get when you visit this cairn. If it wasn’t for the fact that it is marked as a cairn on the OS map I would have passed this by as a pile of stones cleared from the field....which I think most of it is....
Bottom of stone shows signs of damage...may be man-made, may be frost damage. Needs to be kept an eye on.
..and he’s not hiding behind either....
This structure in House 3B was at first thought to be a hearth..but excavations revealed no evidence of burning. There is a suggestion in the guide book that it may have been altered in modern times to provide a platform for Methodist preachers.
One of my favourite rooms at Chysauster, the small round room of House 6. Borlase found evidence of a fire and pottery here.
Possibly one of the original door jambs to House 7. It is thought this house has seen many changes over the years with at least three entrances into it now instead of the usual one.
Three stones in the courtyard of House 7 looking towards Penlee Point
One of the many “Stone with Hollows” that can be found on the site. The lady at the gate..and the official booklet.. did not want to confirm that they were querns saying that they could be the holes that the central posts for the house roofs sat in.
This photo of a stone on the left side of the entrance to House 3B is supposed to show cup marks....however they are very faint ...if not impossible to see unless you know where they are!
Strange radio things sit inside the earthworks...thick mist and an MOD escort made getting a decent photo difficult.
