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ANTIQUITIES OF WEST CORNWALL

 

and how to get there without a car

 

A set of four guidebooks written by Ian McNeil Cooke covering most major prehistoric sites in the Land's End Peninsula. Each guide is in A5 format with a full colour cover and profusely illustrated with line drawings and maps. The guides are based around circular walks embracing a series of monuments with description, alignments, etc., as well as general background information.

 

GUIDE 1 - THE MEN-AN-TOL HOLED STONE

32 pages plus 8 with full colour photographs. Sites covered include The Men-an-Tol, Men Scryfa Inscribed Stone, The Nine Maidens Stone Circle, Bosiliack Barrow, Lanyon Quoit, Chun Quoit, Chun Castle, Bosullow Iron Age Settlement, Madron Well and Baptistery; plus notes on Stone Circles and Chambered Barrows. First printed in 1990, reprinted in 1993, 1997. [ISBN 0-9512371-2-8]

 

 

GUIDE 2 - THE MERRY MAIDENS STONE CIRCLE

32 pages plus 8 full colour photographs. Sites covered include St.Buryan Church and Crosses,  Boskenna Cross, Boscawen Ros Menhirs, The Pipers Menhirs, Boleigh Fogou, Merry Maidens Stone Circle, Nun Careg Cross, Gun Rith Menhir, Tregiffian Barrow; plus notes on Standing Stones. First printed in 1990, reprinted 1994. [ISBN 0-9512371-3-6]

 

 

GUIDE 3 - CARN EUNY VILLAGE AND FOGOU

32 pages plus 6 colour photographs. Sites include Sancreed Church, Crosses and Holy Well, Boscawen-un Stone Circle, Brane Barrow, Carn Euny Village and Fogou, Chapel Euny Holy Well, Caer Bran Hillfort, Brane Cross; with detailed notes on fogous. First printed in 1991, reprinted 1996. [ISBN 0-9512371-4-4]

 

 

GUIDE 4 - THE TINNERS WAY - ST.JUST TO ST.IVES

48 pages plus 8 colour photographs. Sites include St.Just Church and Crosses,  Kenidjack Cliff Castle, Tregeseal Stone Circle, Holed Stones, Boslow Inscribed Stone, Boswens Menhir, Chun Quoit, Chun Castle, Bosullow Iron Age Village, Men-an-Tol, Men Scryfa, The Nine Maidens Stone Circle,  Bodrifty Iron Age Settlement, Mulfra Quoit, Zennor Quoit, Towednack Church and Crosses, St.Ives Church, Cross and Holy Well. First printed in 1991, reprinted 1994. [ISBN 0-9512371-5-2]

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