Chapel Porth

What a perfick day on the coast indeed! This weekend looks like it’ll be good for more Coast Path adventures. Here’s hoping!

Kelly Bennett (INWA Instructor)'s avatarWalk Kernow

Chapel Porth circular.
Wildlife sightings : 1 seal & 1 buzzard (that turned out to be a radio controlled buzzard look alike……only identified when it turned a perfect loop-the-loop……is this a new RAF economy version drone I ask myself?)
Swan Alerts: none
New word of the walk : vertiginous……
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A long (for me) haul up out of Chapel Porth and a breath taking view back along the coast as far as St Ives.
That’s the only benefit of these North Westerlies we’ve been having – the visibility is crystal clear.
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A beautiful time of year for Coast Path walking. Our resident flower expert Sue Edgeler pointed out (and named) lots of wild flowers like the Spring Squill.
Spring squills
We continued along the coast towards St Agnes in the sunshine past the Wheal Coates engine house.
The Wheal Coates mine opened in 1802 and was worked until its closure in 1889. The site…

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Get set, go….

Good luck with the finds!

national trust archaeology sw's avatarArchaeology National Trust SW

Day One of the dig on the beach at Burton Bradstock,  starts cloudy but dry and the NT working holiday gang arrive ready to go and full of beans. The day was spent de- turfing the marked out trench and the face of the small cliff, and then cleaning back (towelling off an inch or so of topsoil) the first layer.

The walls and brick fireplace eroding from the cliff
The walls and brick fireplace eroding from the cliff

We have already found quite a mixture of finds, including some local earthenware pottery from the late 18th century as well as finer china also from the same period. There are also many finds from more recent history on the site, silver foil ice cream wrappers, 1980s ring pulls from cans, and £1.30 in new money! we will put it towards our end of dig cream tea. Talking of cream teas we started with one today courtesy of our lovely ranger Sarah…

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