A bit of a different day for us today, doing a walk around the moor near Zennor to check out some history!
We both slept for 12 hours straight last night trying to recover from yesterday’s gruelling , so I wasn’t sure either of us would be up for the walk but it was very pleasant and the perfect recovery walk!
Our taxi took us it the starting point, Lanyon Quoit, the remains of a Neolithic burial chamber. Then on a boggy path to the Ding Dong tin mine and the Greenburrow engineer house. We used a written guide and an OS map to find these monuments, so it got a bit tricky at times. With the help of a lady who’d driven to the old mine to get mobile reception, we found our way to another Neolithic monument, the Nine Maidens stone circle, which are actually eleven, and thought to previously been up to 22.
From there we took the wrong track but finally ended up at the Four Parish Stone junction and then visited the Mên Scryfa, thought to commemorate the death of a great Celtic royal soldier, and the to the Mên-an-Tôl, apparently a place of ritual and healing.
We then headed back toward the coast passing the Carn Galva mine before having a beautiful lunch at the Gurnard’s Head Inn and heading back toward Zennor.
A heavy mist set in for a while but otherwise a great day’s walking!
Today’s walk, this time starting in the south and heading north
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