Rocky
Valley
Stone carvings
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This is an unusual site and the last place we visited in Cornwall but it is worth is anyway for the extremely pleasant walk to the sea down a “rocky valley”. From Tintagel head towards Boscastle and when you go down a steep hill into the valley there is room to park carefully on the right of the bend. Across the road is a lane leading downhill that is the start of a public footpath that goes through a café.
The well defined carvings
Follow the footpath over the wooden bridge and you soon come to the ruin of Trewethet Mill. The two carvings are on the flat piece of outcrop beside the buildings.
Views of the carvings, plaque and wind chime
A metal sign states this is a protected site and that these are “Labyrinthe pattern carvings probably of Early Bronze Age 1800-1400BC” They look very “new” quite unlike any we have seen elsewhere but plenty of people have left offerings and one particularly fine wind chime hangs in the tree above the carvings. I read that millers had to carve patterns in their millstones to keep the grinding edges abrasive and as this is beside a mill it could be just coincidental.
The path at the other end of Rocky Valley
The walk down to
the sea is beautiful and it is worth it for the scenery.
Easter
2002
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