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URL:https://cornisharchaeology.org.uk/events/2023-walk-programme-buttern-l
 eskernick-and-bray-on-bodmin-moor-with-pete-herring/
SUMMARY:2023 Walk Programme - Buttern\, Leskernick and Bray\, on Bodmin Moo
 r led by Pete Herring
DESCRIPTION:A zig-zagging loop walk on the northern edge of Fawymore (or Bo
 dmin Moor) that visits prehistoric settlements\, fields and ceremonial mon
 uments and includes several instances of apparently deliberate prehistoric
  landscape design. It also encounters interesting mining\, turf-cutting an
 d common pasturing remains. Approximately 9 kilometres or 5.5 miles of une
 ven\, exposed terrain.\n\nThis walk will be led by Pete Herring\, who has
  done considerable field work in this part of the Moor.\n\nWe start at Bow
 ithick ford (SX 1836 8265\; What3Words: blanket.hothouse.ranches) where th
 ere should be ample room for parking. Starting at 10:30 am we will begin 
 to walk through extensive alluvial tin and wolfram works and dressing flo
 ors and onto Buttern Hill where we climb past eluvial streamworks and thro
 ugh probably Bronze Age fields with round houses to reach glorious summit 
 views. Early Bronze Age cairns include one with a beautiful stone box or c
 ist. Down the western side of the hill we go to find a Bronze Age stone ro
 w and then along medieval and post-medieval leats to one of the most impre
 ssive industrial sites in Cornwall\, an 18m deep eluvial streamwork separa
 ting Buttern from Leskernick.\n\n[caption id="attachment_1933" align="alig
 ncenter" width="359"] Cist in a platform cairn on Buttern Hill[/caption]\n
 \nUp Leskernick Hill to another summit cairn\, this one with petalled ston
 es and along to the first propped stone identified in Cornwall\, nearly 30
  years ago now. Then down into and through extensive well-preserved fields
  and round houses to a complex of stone circles\, stone row and cairns on 
 the lower slopes\, where we start our journey back. It may be time for an 
 afternoon mug of tea when we reach a lonely post-medieval cottage\, now ru
 ined\, at Redhill\, before we follow a contemporary bank along the lower c
 ontour of Bray Down until we see it attached to an earlier enclosure\, Wes
 t Moor Common’s rectangular drift pound\, used for holding animals tresp
 assing on the commons.\n\n[caption id="attachment_1934" align="aligncenter
 " width="395"] Leskernick stone circle picked out by people on an earlier 
 CAS field trip.[/caption]\n\nThe last stretch takes us to our third summit
 \, that of Bray Down\, with a line of three Bronze Age cairns\, two of the
 m tor cairns and all aligned on a neat natural cheesewring to their west. 
 Down the north-west slopes through medieval strip fields and back to the s
 tart.
CATEGORIES:Walks
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