Before the Mines: The 10,000-Year History Hidden Between Poly Joke and Holywell
Between Poly Joke and Holywell, flints, burial mounds, imported pottery and cliff castles reveal thousands of years beneath an apparently quiet landscape.
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Perran-in-the-Sands: The Two Churches the Dunes Nearly Swallowed
The lost church on Perran Sands turns out to be two buried religious sites—and a centuries-long argument with a moving landscape.
Crantock’s Lost Chapel: St Ambrusca, the College and the Old Churchyard
A named chapel, a wide cemetery and a newly excavated medieval building make Crantock’s religious history much larger than the surviving churchyard.
The Ancient Circle That Isn’t — and the Ancient Circle That Is
St Newlyn East’s Preaching Pit looks ancient. Hay Close really is. Their different histories reveal how the same landscape kept finding new reasons to gather people together.
Porth Island Before Newquay: Furnaces, Roundhouses and a Chieftain’s Grave
Porth Island held a defended settlement and an ironworking industry long before Newquay grew around it. Later storytellers supplied a Danish chieftain.