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Walks

CAS Field Walks 2012 Feb 19th: A short walk around Notter Tor with Ann Reynolds (of HES): 14:00-16:00. Meet at Treovis Cross Farm (SX 277 739), walk to Notter Tor to see the Neolithic Tor enclosure and, en route, inspect evidence for traditional woodland management and inspect the remains of Darley Mine, one of the largest setts in the Caradon Mining District extracting copper between 1840 and 1913 under a variety of names inlcuding Sharptor Mine and North Phoenix. March 18th: Botelet Manor and Bury Down with Carol Vivian and Steve Hartgroves; 11:00 - 16:00: Meet at Botelet Farm (Domesday manor) (SX 1835 6025), walk along green lanes to explore the remains of West Herodsfoot lead mine and Botelett corn mill, return to Botelet for a picnic lunch (inside if wet); look at the remains of the late medieval manor house with Carol Vivian, then walk up to Bury Down to experience a well preserved hillfort with possible Neolithic origins and take in the far reaching views. NB: Wellies and waterproofs if weather is inclement. Sunday April 15th – Pencarrow House, Bodmin with Pam Dodds of the Cornwall Gardens Society and Steve Hartgroves. 11:00 – 16:00 NGR SX 0400 7000: meet in the visitors car park. NB there will be an entrance charge of £5.50 per person. A day at Pencarrow exploring the grounds, which incorporate a possibly unfinished bivallate hillfort, a medieval cross, an ornamental pond and ice house, and the Italian garden. There are tea rooms on site. The Hillfort is situated in a bluebell wood – we hope we have got the timing right for a fine display. For an additional £5.00 it will be possible to join a guided tour of the house. Sunday May 20th - Cycle the Mineral Tramway with Nicholas Johnson. 10:30 to 16:00. Meet at the car park by the Perran Viaduct in the Bissoe valley, NGR SW 7833 4085 NB Bring your own bike - or hire one for the day at Bissoe Cycle Hire NGR SW 7756 4132. A maximum gradient of 1 in 200 was one of the more remarkable snippets of information which first persuaded CAU to press for the creation of the mineral tramway cycle trails. This, the first CAS bike ride, will head off along the Redruth- Chasewater railway via the Bissoe arsenic works to Twelveheads, continuing north across the A30 to Wheal Peevor, returning via Wheal Busy, Hallenbeagle, Killifreth Mine, Unity Wood and the Poldice valley. The round trip is approx 12 miles. Sunday June 17th - Penwith South coast walk with Adam Sharpe, 10:30 to 16:00; Meet at the car park at Treen NGR SW 3948 2294 Stout footware advised. A walk along the spectacular south coast of Penwith, taking in Treen, Treryn Dinas and Penberth, exploring the cliff castle, prehistoric and medieval farming, pilchard fishing and 19th century market gardening. Including an exploration of the rugged and precipitous cliff castle and Logan stone for the nimbler and sure-footed amongst us. Sunday July 15th – St Mawgan Early Medieval monastic site with Ann Preston-Jones and Andrew Langdon and Trevelgue Iron Age cliff castle with Jackie Nowakowski 10:30 – 16:00 Assemble at the entrance to the cliff castle in Porth at SW 8302 6296 (by the crazy golf) A chance to learn first-hand about the important results of Croft Andrew’s 1939 excavations at Trevelgue cliff castle from one of the authors of the recent and much-praised HE publication. Picnic or pub lunch. In the afternoon we will go to the early medieval lann site of Lanherne and explore the medieval church within its raised oval churchyard and several fine medieval granite crosses including the most elaborate lantern headed cross in Cornwall. We also hope to be able to see the early medieval inscribed stone, made unusually of Pentewan stone, in the grounds of the adjacent convent. The four sides of the shaft are decorated with relief carved interlace work and an interlacing serpent. The inscription on the front is unclear, but it may be the name of the sculptor, for a similar name appears on a similar cross at Sancreed. Can anyone offer a lift to lectures and walks to a member from Newquay? Contact: secretary@cornisharchaeology.org.uk If any member has any ideas for walks and people who might lead them or for any other information, please contact: Tel: 01872 572725 Porthgwarra (Image by Graeme Kirkham)

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