Scilly Isles and Cornwall

[Jools]

Gaunt is a play on words, as in "tall, thin man" referring to a menhir and it's not so far removed from giant either. Gaunt was enormously wealthy (his Savoy Palace was the epitome of opulence just as the Savoy Hotel is today) and giants are associated with treasure as has already been said.

Carn Brea Castle is said to have been built on top of an earlier chapel dedicated to St Michael. He's often found on high places, somewhat overshadowed in this instance by St Agnes' Beacon, Carn Brea's sister hill, which can be seen out at sea and is described as "the most prominent feature" of the coastline.

[Jacqui]

[Jools]

[Jacqui]

[Jacqui]

[Jools]

[Boreades]

[hvered]

St Agnes Beacon hove back into view recently as it's directly east of St Erme, a village on the Michael Line whose parish church is dedicated to St Hermes (a Christian martyr supposedly beheaded in Rome but no longer considered a 'real' saint).



East from St Erme, the line continues to Porthpean, just south of St Austell, and a sheltered east-facing cove called Carnjewey which has an apparently natural rock arch. Coincidence or not but it seems a very useful shortcut to avoid sailing all round Land's End and back up again to, say, Falmouth or Fowey or even the Erme estuary, so will earmark it for 'further investigation'.

[Boreades]

I'm wondering if TME has addressed the strange anomaly of many (something)Bury place names in Cornwall?

It's an anomaly because we're told Bury is a Saxon name, but the Saxons didn't do Cornwall.

Or what?

[Boreades]

The Saxons had a stronghold in northeastern Cornwall, which is reflected in many of the place names (-stow, -bury, -ton, -worthy, -cott, -ham, -ford etc). As you move further west, the Celtic place names (Tre-, Pen-, Lan-) become more common.

According to
http://www.iwalkcornwall.co.uk/walk/warbstow_bury

Seems strange that they came so close but stopped there.