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Elizabeth Dale
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Discover a Bronze Age cemetery . . .
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Yesterday's walk . . .
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Was very happy to receive a message from someone who went looking for this treasure after reading my blog!
That is what I am here for folks!!
That is what floats my boat and keeps this show on the road!!
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In 1890 there was a huge landslip on the north coast that revealed something rather curious . . .
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The medieval chapel and holy well of St Clether is thought to once have been the resting place for the bones of the saint that founded it.
Today, still only accessible on foot, it remains a wonderful haven of peace and tranquillity. A perfect escape.
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Find out who this gentleman is, why he has such a grand tomb and his connection to Daphne Du Maurier . . .
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Tucked away behind St Andrew’s Church in Stratton you can discover a striking sculpture amongst the granite memorials and golden buttercups.
Discover who created this rare work of art and who it is commemorating . . .
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A windswept Stripple stones, in low light, on an Archaeoastronomy walk. (Folklore + tales told by @cornishbirdblog.com ) Rough Tor on the left on the horizon, Bronn Wennili (Brown Willy) on the right. Do the tops of these stones echo the high peaks in the background? #Cornwall #StandingStoneSunday
Elizabeth Dale
If you love finding art in the wild or enjoy wandering around an old graveyard, as I do, reading the headstones and admiring the craftsmanship, then there is one monument that you should definitely se...
If you had happened to walk out on to St Catherine’s Point from the town of Fowey in the winter of 1866 a strange scene would have greeted you. Above the sound of the waves breaking on the rocks below...
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St Clether Chapel and Holy Well was a site of pilgrimage for hundreds of years, discover its history with Cornish writer Elizabeth Dale
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Cornish blogger Elizabeth Dale takes us to the enigmatic Buttern Hill with it's a Bronze Age cemetery, she describes some of the discoveries made.
When the artist J. M. W. Turner was walking between the villages of Mousehole and Paul in the summer of 1811 he paused for just long enough to make a rough pencil sketch of a granite monument that had...
