
The overgrown barrow-mound looking NW – it’s the drier looking area mid pic, with a green bush ‘on top’ and large (kerb?)stone on the near edge
The overgrown barrow-mound looking NW – it’s the drier looking area mid pic, with a green bush ‘on top’ and large (kerb?)stone on the near edge
The view from the far end of the ‘southern’ grave’s chamber
The ‘southern’ grave’s quietly impressive chamber is now far more overgrown than in greywether’s shots! This is after 10 mins cutting the vegetation back – the stones lurk in the centre of the pic
The 2 Treen graves (that we could find) overview, looking northish. In the foreground (area of long dry grass and bush with Ocifant next to it) is one of the mounds that probably wasn’t an entrance grave. ‘Southern’ grave is under the green clump of vegetation in the left near-distance
The ‘other’ mound from the north – we could find little to ‘see’ other than a couple of possible kerbstones, but this one is thought not to have been an entrance grave
Looking SSW – Zennor Quoit visible as a dark triangle on the ‘near’ horizon roughly central, Ding Dong mine on skyline
Looking NNW – Zennor really is a beauty!
Looking NNE – the direction of nearby Sperris Quoit
Overview of stones 2, 3 & 4 looking SW – back towards the remaining Tregeseal circle. Jane stands next to stone 5
The holed stones with Carn Kenidjack on the horizon
I’d never realised St Just was so clearly visible, though I knew it was nearby. (Shows probably the least scorched angle on the blackened stones)
The ugly black stain on the land and the stones – I’d been REALLY looking forward to seeing this one again.... I only hope there’s no lasting damage
Capstones looking northish with a kerbstone in background
The beehive part of the structure from the north
The original entrance into the ‘beehive’ (left of centre), looking into the original passage (where the ‘new’ SW entrance is). The so-called ‘cupboard’ recess (right of centre) is a modern addition
‘New’ SW entrance to passage
Ocifant approaches the structure from the SW where it is built into fieldwalls
The cist, with remaining kerbstones surrounding
The inside of the cairn and its stones. Often momentarily mistaken on first sight it would seem, for the Nine Maidens. Well, by Mr Cope and me anyway (on my previous visit).
Men Scryfa pictured being given a good talking to.... (For scale Jane is 5’ 9”)
Front view with St Michael’s Mount to the left, Penzance to the right
From the top of the path up the hillside. Oh look, there’s the Ding Dong mine, how unusual....
The view back towards the Hurlers from ‘the entrance bit‘
Jane inspects the tiny entrance to the chamber-y cisty-bit (stop me if I’m getting too technical....)
From the SE – aligned to the entrance, chamber and Ian Cooke’s mid-winter sunrise
Easy to see why Julian recommends the sunsets in the TMA book – ‘Jane from TMA’ stands atop the barrow amid the drama
Slightly odd pit-like chamber on inland side of structure
The multiple stacks, looking back towards the Hurlers
The stack teetering on the edge of its man-made cliff
The Hurlers from Rillaton Barrow (high magnification!)
Illustrating the speed of the weather changing and how localised it is – bright sun on the Cheesewring, and forbidding cloud over the Hurlers