Hawk’s Tor, Stripple Stones and Trippet Stones circles and Manor Common, Blisland led by Carolyn Kennet and Pete Herring

Meet at the lane-side rough parking east of the Treswigger crossroads at SX 12947475, or What3Words: picked.responded.sleepless

A moorland walk in high summer, and the third this year in which archaeo-astronomer Carolyn Kennett puts some of Cornwall’s most famous circles in their astronomical context. A link to the Tregeseal and Stannon walks is the involvement of Sir Norman and Lady Lockyer at the excavations of the Stripple Stones in 1905.

Pete Herring sets out these circles’ pivotal role in the development of experiential landscape archaeology as pioneered on Bodmin Moor by the late Chris Tilley (‘Rocks as Resources’, Cornish Archaeology, 34, 1995). As we explore tor-topped
Hawk’s Tor and the rolling downs of Blisland’s Manor Common, Pete leads discussion of Bronze Age cairns, the commons of Blisland manor, intakes from them, tin streamworking, granite stone-splitting and subtle second-world war remains of national defence and then D-Day military preparations. We also hope to reach a possible third stone circle on the western slopes of the hill known as Nailaborough.

Around 4 miles of rough moorland walking. Wear suitable clothes and footwear and bring packed lunch.

Southern part of the Stripple Stones circle-henge