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DTSTART:20240601T100000Z
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SUMMARY:A Guided Walk Around Pentire and The Rumps\, St Minver led by Pete 
 Herring and Iain Rowe
DESCRIPTION:This is a two-walk day. We will have a shorter more easily acce
 ssible walk in the morning (10.00 to 12.30)\, using well-maintained and st
 raightforward paths that take us to a good place to view and discuss The R
 umps cliff castle. In the afternoon (13.30 to 17.00) there will be a longe
 r walk to the cliff-castle along rougher tracks and paths.\n\nBoth walks a
 re led by Pete Herring of CAS and by Iain Rowe of the Monumental Improveme
 nt project being run by the Cornwall National Landscape team. They each co
 mmence at the Pentire Glaze Lead Mines car park:\n\n 	SW 9409 7999\n 	What
 3Words: ample.bonfires.files\n\nWear clothing and footwear for rough groun
 d and to suit the weather forecast.\n\nThe silver-lead lode worked in the 
 Pentire Glaze mine is visible in cliffs 2000 feet east of Pentire farm. Wi
 lliam Carnsew mentioned it in 1580 and the mine worked sporadically from t
 hen on until the 1850s when an engine pumped the levels. Sites of shafts a
 re now indicated by their burrows\, and a drainage adit was driven in from
  just above sea level.\n\nBetween the mine and Pentire Farm the lane passe
 s through a complex of apparently prehistoric features spotted on aerial p
 hotos. These include round barrows\, round houses\, and small curvilinear 
 enclosures. Archaeological field walking has also produced evidence for sc
 atters of prehistoric flints.\n\nPentire Farm has a grand farmhouse and su
 bstantial stone and slate farm buildings\, including cow\, calf and\n\ncar
 t houses\, and a horse engine attached to a barn.\n\nThe lane becomes a pa
 th as it runs through fields with medieval shapes and beautifully built he
 dges. Early summer flowers should be in their prime and on a good day the 
 air is busy with farm and sea birds.\n\nWe reach the coast on the east sid
 e of the mouth of the Camel between Pentire Point and The Rumps.\n\nThe Ru
 mps cliff castle is one of the most dramatic in Cornwall. Three lines of b
 anks and ditches cut off a headland that rears up into hillocks\, the rump
 s. It was the subject of one of CAS’s early excavations\, directed by RT
  Brooks between 1963 and 1967. Pottery and other artefacts date from the l
 ater Iron Age and Roman period. We can discuss the detail on the day\, eit
 her from the morning’s viewing point or from vantage points within the c
 liff castle in the afternoon.\n\nWe may also talk about the use of the sea
  and the shore along this often wild coast.\n"From Padstow Point to Hartla
 nd Light\,\nIs a watery grave by day or night"\nThe afternoon walk weaves 
 along the coast path to Pengirt Cove\, passing ‘Cruel Coppinger’s Cave
 ’ at Com Beach\, a cave supposedly large enough to conceal his smuggling
  ship The Black Prince within it.\n\nFor further information\, see event f
 lyer: Pentire and The Rumps\, St Minver Walk\n\n[caption id="attachment_23
 63" align="aligncenter" width="945"] The Rumps\, Cornwall and Scilly Histo
 ric Environment Record. Photo taken by Steve Hartgroves\, October 31st\, 2
 008.[/caption]
CATEGORIES:Walks
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