Stowe's Pound

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Earthworks onlybanks, ditches and platforms — read the ground, not walls

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Stowe's Pound is one of 21 hillforts the Albion Guide maps in Cornwall. The surrounding countryside is part of Cornwall National Landscape National Landscape. For arrivals by rail, Liskeard Station is 8.9 km to the south. Hurlers and Craddock Moor stone are among the ancient sites within 1.8 km.

Full name: Earlier Prehistoric hillfort, two cairns, medieval pound and adjacent Prehistoric field systems, hut circles and transhumance huts on Stowe's Hill

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Cornwall National Landscape

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The best of Cornwall's coast and moor, gathered into a dozen protected stretches around the county

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The Cheesewring

Rock formation near Minions

Precarious stack of weather-sculpted granite slabs on Stowe's Hill above Minions, wrapped in giant legend.

1.5 km S

King Doniert's Stone

inscribed-stone near Minions

Two carved stumps from a 9th-century cross near St Cleer on Bodmin Moor, inscribed for Doniert, probably the Cornish king Dungarth drowned around AD 875.

4.4 km SW