Tag: standing stones

The Dry Tree Menhir – the Goonhilly Downs standing stone

August 27, 2018.Reading time 6 minutes.
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In the past writers have described the Goonhilly Downs on the Lizard peninsula as a bleak, remote and wild. Said to be the haunt of notorious highway men, travellers often complained of disorientating drifts of fog. But the day I visited the downs were beautiful. The only drifts were of pink and white heather. There […]

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Men-Amber Rock, a lost logan rock with a strange history

April 30, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

In Cornwall the landscape around us is alive with stories. As a people we seem to have always formed a close relationship with the natural geology that surrounds us. Here it is nearly impossible for a rock to be just a rock! There is always a tale attached and sometimes more than one! Men-amber rock […]

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