Near Four Lanes stands what remains of two stone circles. Next to the B3280 the six remaining menhirs survive. Four still standing in situ and two others that have been built into the adjacent ston…

150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences

Duloe stone circle is thought to date from the early to middle bronze age – approximately 4000 years ago – around 2000 years BCE. Like all Kernow’s megalithic monuments, it is still an alluring eni…

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As a seasonal signpost, the hawthorn announces spring with its blossom and greets autumn with its rusty red haws. Blossoming around May Day as the land quickens with life, the Hawthorn is celebrated in the folk customs of the British Isles for marking the birth of summer and the death of winter.

The Merry Maidens, one of Penwith’s four remaining stone circles, are a fine example of a Cornish megalithic monument. A perfect seventy-eight-foot circle, consisting of nineteen granite stones of …

Excerpts From 1934: ‘The Story of Cornwall’  by A.K.Hamilton Jenkin History before books were written The Tamar valley is quite narrow here, but a few miles farther down it widens out, …

Pawton Quoit is a magnificent portal dolmen built by Cornwall’s stone age inhabitants. The imposing megalith sits, mostly intact, atop a ridge overlooking a steep valley. The enormous capstone, which juts out incongruously against the landscape, must weigh at least 15 tonne, and perches on just three points of the supporting upright stones.

The Nine Maidens stone row stands in a field immediately south of the A39.  The early bronze-age monument sits in a field on Breock Downs between St Columb Major and Wadebridge. Nine irregular arrow shaped menhirs stand in a row running SW to NE, parallel to a small stream whose banks are

The first step on the road to managing my anxiety was to identify it. To understand what that feeling was, how it felt in my body. To recognise anxious thoughts for what they were, so I could observe them, rather than engage with them. So I could attempt to rationalise and reframe them.