Mên-an-Tol, known locally equally the Crick Stone, inwards Cornwall England.
Photograph: Paul Williams/Alamy
Our landscape is studded amongst reminders of past times peoples. An skilful inwards the champaign chooses her favourite windows into antiquity
Mên-an-Tol, Penwith Moor, close Madron, Cornwall
The cite agency “stone amongst a hole” inwards Cornish in addition to the site is in all probability most 4,000 years old, dating from the bronze age. There are to a greater extent than stones hidden nether the turf. What’s clear is that you’re inwards an ancient landscape – there’s a neolithic enclosure on the hillside, bronze-age barrow burials in addition to the Boskednan Nine Maidens rock circle nearby. Some 400 metres to the northward of the Mên-an-Tol is the Mên Scryfa, in all probability a bronze-age standing rock that was reused roughly fourth dimension betwixt 450-650AD equally a grave marker. It’s inscribed amongst RIALOBRANI CVNOVALI FILI inwards Roman lettering, pregnant “Rialobranus, boy of Cunovalus”. Rialobran, or Ryalvran, is a native Cornish name, in addition to may hateful “royal raven”.
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