The Cheesewring

May 4, 2019.Reading time 10 minutes.

Perhaps Cornwall’s oldest tourist attraction, the Cheesewring has been drawing people to the lonely moors near Bodmin for centuries. This dramatic granite rock formation can be found halfway up the west side of Stowes Hill. Completely natural, this monument is the result of thousands of years of weathering. Many other similar rock formations can be […]

The Source of the River Fowey

October 20, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

I recently discovered a pamphlet in a charity shop, it is an early publication by E. C. Axford, called ‘The Cornish Moor’. There are very few books about Bodmin Moor so I was excited to find it. I soon realised that the same author had also written the 1975 topographical guide to the moors that […]

Harpur’s Downs Hut Circles – Bronze Age Settlements on Bodmin Moor

September 22, 2018.Reading time 9 minutes.

I spend much of my time writing about and photographing the ancient monuments that our ancestors have left behind in the Cornish landscape. There are many well-known and enigmatic sites that captivate us, places that are the subject of the most study and the ones most likely to end up on Instagram! It isn’t very […]

Kerbed Cairn on Alex Tor, Bodmin Moor

May 21, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

In recent weeks the local papers have been alive with the news of a unique discovery. A 4000 years old cremation urn was uncovered, beautifully complete, during an excavation of Hendersick Barrow, near Looe. There is understandably great excitement about what these remains can tell us. What they can uncover about our ancient ancestors and […]

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