Bodmin Moor

Auntie Margaret, Uncle Bill, Pauline and myself took a one hour drive to Bodmin Moor - took us two hours after we got lost in Launceston.  We couldn't find the way out!  Bodmin Moor is of one the last great unspoilt areas in the South West and much of its prehistoric and medieval past remains untouched by the passing of the centuries - 2000 prehistoric sites are still visible.  We climbed to the summit of Stowe's Hill near a little village called Minions where for more than 6000 years man has lived, worked and farmed.   On top of the hill we came upon a Bronze Age stone temple known as The Hurlers, which consists of three large aligned stone circles, but we only saw two.  It was so cold we couldn't walk any farther. Legend has it that men where turned into stone for playing hurling on top of the hill!!! Well it is a theory anyway!!

Unbelievably we found a tea room that served cornish pasties and cream teas - yum yum! And we had both!! We went from there to Trethevy Quoit. Well I say went, we struggled to find it and drove around the tiniest hedge lined lanes, when we did get there we only had 5 minutes of dim daylight left!! But we saw it and it was magnificent. This quoit is known locally as The Giant's House.  The capstone is 3.7m (12ft) long and, in its half-fallen state, 4.6m (15ft) high. There's also a natural hole piercing its highest point, but noone knows the function of this port-hole, some experts speculate that it was used for astronomical observations.

Time team have been to Bodmin Moor if you want to check it out; http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/2007_bod.html