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Sorry we no longer provide our 'Chichester Interest Holidays'. We are still providing Bed and Breakfast from mid-March to October and happy to support
walkers, mineral collectors, archaeologists, natural historians etc. in pursuing their interests in our lovely County and guests who would just like a clean and friendly place to stay.
WELCOME TO NEWQUAY. February 12th, 2012. Been busy since Christmas. Steve has redecorated a bedroom
and our little loo and been helping at the
Cornwall Archeological Unit packing finds from digs and cleaning bits of pottery. Our friend Alan came to stay
so we were out and about. We went to Tesco's at Truro for lunch. The shop car park is by the river and
the tide was out and the dunlin pictured above were feeding on the mud bank. I have also been doing a lot of
local history research. Down on the River Gannel, Newquay side, along in the cliff face by Fern Pit -
where you can get the ferry to Crantock are 4 sets of carvings where about 40 in total slate discs up to 20 inches in diameter
have been removed. Newquay locals call them the 'Salt Pans'.
They have been listed as prehistoric but I think they really date to the late 1800's. I was told they were carved
out using
a bucket for garden stepping stones! I decided to have a go myself with
a bit of old slate a guest had left in our yard and a bean tin hence the photo above - I did discover that the
Egyptians used copper cylinders to take cores of
rock out of limestone when building ancient tombs so got the idea from that. Apart from the slate I used has the grain
the wrong way from that on the Gannel I did manage to make a mini paving stone by rotating the bean
tin on the slate until it cut through.
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