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URL:https://cornisharchaeology.org.uk/events/chun-downs-castle-and-quoit-a
 nd-nearby-sites-with-pete-herring-and-archaeo-astronomer-carolyn-kennett/
SUMMARY:Chun Downs\, Castle and Quoit and nearby sites\, with Pete Herring 
 and archaeo-astronomer Carolyn Kennett
DESCRIPTION:This walk is a return to an old CAS tradition of getting a New 
 Year blast of winter air on a wild and interesting hilltop to clear Christ
 mas\, Yule or Solstice away\, or perhaps to bring them into a different fo
 cus. This walk will be a joint adventure with the Cornwall Ancient Sites P
 rotection Network\, CASPN\, and we will visit three sites that CASPN cares
  for.\n\nWe thought we’d restart the tradition down west\, in St Just\, 
 Sancreed and Morvah at Dry Carn and Chun Downs\, where parish boundary lin
 es are almost as interesting as the archaeology.\n\n[caption id="attachmen
 t_2625" align="aligncenter" width="1251"] Chun Quoit (Cathy Parkes)[/capti
 on]\n\nWe start by walking up the NW face of Dry Carn to the Boswens Long 
 Stone and its platform cairn\, and if we are fortunate with the weather we
  will enjoy spectacular views of the western uplands of West Penwith\, inc
 luding our next destination\, Chun Downs. By approaching this from the sou
 th we will appreciate how the builders of the outer enclosure designed it 
 in relation to Chun Quoit\, or Cromlech. We will also be creeping up on th
 e startling Iron Age inner enclosure\, a stone-built hillfort so reminisce
 nt of Irish cashels. Chun Castle appears from pre-war excavations to have 
 been reused in the Early Medieval period.\n\n[caption id="attachment_2626"
  align="aligncenter" width="1249"] Chun Downs beyond Boswens Long Stone (P
 ete Herring)[/caption]\n\nWe’ll try to engineer the walk so that we get 
 to Chun Quoit in time to see the sun dropping towards and even setting beh
 ind Carn Kenidjack. Carolyn will explain the solstitial alignment from the
  quoit to Carn Kenidjack’s propped stone\, which many of us saw back in 
 February. There are other elements of landscape design to note as well. Fe
 w places in Cornwall are better for seeing how prehistoric people observed
  and responded to the remains created by their predecessors.\n\n[caption i
 d="attachment_2627" align="aligncenter" width="612"] Chun Castle from the 
 west (Carolyn Kennett)[/caption]\n\nWe will meet at 13.00 at the ‘Chun Q
 uoit car park’ (so-named on Google Maps) opposite the Trewellard turning
  1/4 mile south of Pendeen on North Road at SW 3934 3336\, or What3Words t
 rying.surfer.unheated . There should be room for 12 cars here if we all pa
 rk sensibly\; once this is full there are 2 further laybys down the road a
 nd plenty of room in the farm lane to Boslow Farm (please park sensibly).\
 n\nWe hope to get you back there by around 5pm.\n\nWear clothing and footw
 ear suitable for a cold day and wet ground. We will assume that lunch has 
 already been eaten.
CATEGORIES:Walks
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