Ancient Stones of Kernow

14/07/2025

'Atonement'

06/07/2025

Overture "Coastal Grandeur".

26/06/2025

Exciting News.

04/02/2025

Always wonderful images.

Chûn Quoit is one of the best preserved of all Neolithic quoits in western Cornwall, United Kingdom. Chûn Quoit is located in open moorland near Pendeen and Morvah. Standing on a ridge, near the much later constructed Chûn Castle hill fort, it overlooks heather moorland and the open sea.
If you're a lover of ancient sites and sunsets it's quite hard to beat this was the first ancient place that got me interested in ancient places when my uncle took me to it
I would love to hear what made you take an interest in ancient places whether it was through a family member or something else?

02/02/2025

The Sun Setting between the Drift Menhirs , Also known as the Sisters .. Located in West Cornwall

18/01/2025

Wonderful image.

Zennor Quoit at night, An ancient Neolithic burial chamber or Dolmen located in West Cornwall

01/12/2024

Wonderful night-time images, amongst these.

18/11/2024

Have you heard the news? Thanks to our successful interventions, Caer Bran – an important multi-period hilltop site in West Penwith – has been removed from Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Register!

The site contains archaeological remains from both the Bronze Age and Iron Age periods, principally an early Bronze Age hilltop enclosure with ring cairns and an unusually unfinished Iron Age hillfort. The massive earthworks you can see there today were probably intended to create a gathering place, a status symbol and a defendable fort.

We purchased Caer Bran in February 2022 after Historic England made the decision to add the nine-hectare site to its Heritage at Risk Register, due to a risk of bracken and scrub overgrowth. It was bought to protect the site from these issues as well as from possible development and intensive agricultural use.

The purchase was made possible by a generous gift left to the charity by Miss Carlene Edith Harry in her will. Miss Harry was from West Penwith and had a keen interest in her local history.

Initial works at the monument - including fencing, vegetation management, ecological surveys, and interpretation - were funded thanks to a £19,912 grant from Historic England.

Caer Bran has been on the Heritage at Risk register at many points over the last two decades. That’s why when it came onto the market in 2022, we made it our mission to save it once and for all. Our team has been working incredibly hard over the last two years to ensure it receives the management, regular maintenance and specialist interventions its complex needs require, and we’re overjoyed to hear that this has resulted in its removal from the register!

03/11/2024

Gunrith is an out-lying stone to the Merry Maidens stone circle, with a possible astral alignment.

Gunrith standing stone, still hiding in the hedge, Penwith, Cornwall.

24/10/2024

Classified as Enterance Graves or Scillonian Tombs.

St Mary's burial chambers are a sturdy reminder of Scilly's heritage all the way back to the Bronze age.

The chamber at Porth Hellick dates back to around 1500 BC and is the largest entrance grave in its area amongst 6 other graves. When this grave was first built, most of Scilly would likely have been on a single landmass or fertile lowlands. Since then the rise in sea level has separated the islands to what we know today.

📸 Innisidgen Upper Burial Chamber St Mary's by Natalie Rance

19/10/2024

02/10/2024

Patterns and Pathways
‘Communication’
A pastel drawing by Mandy Jackson in a primitive style, drawn as a part of the ‘Ancient Stones of Kernow’ project.This includes an illustrated book, artwork and guided tours of the ancient sites. Along with a music score, which includes a dance theatre piece the ballet, ‘Midsummer Rituals’ which is nearing completion.