Index
MEYN MAMVRO
Ancient Stones and Sacred Sites in Cornwall
Editor: Cheryl Straffon
Index compiled by Raymond Cox
INDEX
VOLUME ONE: ISSUES 1-100
1986 to 2019
Index references give the issue and page number:
eg. 15/23 = Issue 15 page 23.
All entries for Scillonian sites and archaeology are listed under "Isles of Scilly".
Each link below leads to an issue of the magazine.
Then flip through it to the relevant page or download a PDF.
Major categories:
A
Aboriginal Songlines (see Songlines)
Adder's Beads - (see Milpreves)
Alignments (see also Astro-archaeology) - 1/12; 2/7; 3/6; 4/5; 5/2; 6/7; 7/2; 8/8-10; 10/4; 10/7; 12/5; 14/4; 20/4-5; 23/24; 26/6-9; 31/3; 32/3; 34/8; 37/16; 47/11; 61/18; 65/18; 66/14; 67/14-19; 69/13; 70/8-11; 72/6; 73/13; 77/6; 78/6; 78/7; 78/21; 80/24; 81/7; 81/9; 82/6; 82/19; 83/6; 84/6; 85/6; 86/6; 86/8; 87/16; 88/8; 89/6; 91/6; 92/9-14; 93/4; 93/13; 93/16; 94/10-12; 94/15; 94/16; 95/7; 95/9-13; 96/6-9; 97/12; 99/9; 99/14; 100/5
Ankh - (see Crosses, General)
Animals (see Celtic totem animals)
Anomalous phenomena - 4/3; 10/8; 11/19; 11/20; 12/19; 12/24; 14/3; 16/5; 17/2; 17/5; 18/5; 19/5; 21/3; 21/15-19; 25/18; 25/20-21; 25/24; 32/14; 32/18; 33/6; 34/24; 35/4; 35/24; 36/4; 46/4; 47/4; 52/14-19; 71/6-9; 73/13; 77/13; 77/20; 78/21; 81/24; 86/24; 99/12; 100/20
Anu - 11/16; 17/6; 25/1; 57/8; 87/15; 87/19; 88/2-3; 91/19; 94/16; 94/22; 94/23; 95/21; 98/17; 98/23
Astro-archaeology – (see also Alignments) 2/10; 4/5; 12/5; 14/7; 19/2; 20/9-10: 26/6-8; 29/5-7; 42/9; 48/7-11; 55/7; 58/8; 59/14; 59/14-19; 62/8; 63/10; 63/23; 64/10; 66/5; 66/7-13; 67/2; 67/8-11; 67/13; 68/15-16; 72/6; 72/20; 74/13; 76/10; 78/6-7; 80/12; 80/15; 80/19-23; 83/10; 84/20; 84/24; 85/18; 86/17; 92/24; 93/24; 95/9-13; 97/12; 100/9-12
AUTHORS of articles:
Cox, Raymond - 27/21; 30/12; 31/12; 32/12; 33/12; 34/12; 35/12; 36/10; 37/12; 41/12; 42/12; 43/12; 44/12; 45/12; 46/12; 47/10; 52/14; 63/8; 64/8; 65/18; 66/14; 68/10; 71/7; 73/8; 74/6; 75/6; 81/9; 82/6; 83/6; 84/6; 85/6; 93/14Norfolk, Andy - 26/10; 27/18; 29/5; 34/14; 35/4; 37/6; 44/18; 44/23; 47/16; 54/9; 62/14; 63/14; 67/14; 95/14; 100/12Straffon, Cheryl - 1/18; 2/18; 4/4; 5/6; 6/16; 7/20; 8/4; 10/16; 11/4; 12/15; 13/6; 15/5; 16/6; 17/6; 18/6; 19/15; 21/20; 22/10; 24/6; 24/14; 25/6; 25/18; 26/14; 27/14; 28/6; 28/18; 29/8; 30/18; 31/8; 32/14; 33/5; 34/4; 35/8; 36/20; 37/8; 38/19; 39/4; 41/14; 42/14; 43/8; 44/8; 45/18; 46/8; 47/12; 48/20; 50/11; 51/6; 52/6; 54/9; 54/14; 56/14; 57/8; 59/16; 60/14; 61/14; 61/16; 61/18; 62/8; 64/18; 65/14; 66/16; 67/8; 67/14; 68/14; 68/20; 69/7; 69/19; 69/20; 70/18; 71/18; 75/16; 76/10; 76/14; 80/18; 82/19; 83/12; 83/16; 90/14; 93/16
B
Bards of Cornwall - (see Gorseth)
Bartinney disc barrowsCarn Gluze - (see Ballowall)
Battle of Vellan-drucher - (see Vellan-drucher)
Beltane / Beltane festivals - 1/15; 2/15; 6/18; 11/5; 11/9; 17/9; 20/16; 33/22; 39/22; 48/12; 59/19; 69/14; 70/4; 74/5; 99/4
Blight - (see Film)
Bodmin Moor - 13/10; 24/6; 38/5; 44/11; 49/5; 49/8-17; 55/6; 57/11; 64/7; 64/10; 74/20; 86/16; 91/23; 94/18; 97/7; 98/4; 98/7; 98/22; 99/8
Bolster Bank, The - (see St. Agnes)
BOOK REVIEWS: (Authors)
Cornish Archaeology - 18/23; 60/22; 67/22; 68/19; 77/23; 78/22; 79/23; 90/23; 93/20; 93/21; 96/21; 98/21; 99/21
Borlase, William – 1/20; 2/2; 6/4; 7/7; 8/18; 11/8; 22/7; 26/6; 31/14; 32/12; 34/4; 42/8; 43/6; 47/11; 51/8; 53/15; 53/21; 57/15; 59/9; 60/21; 69/12; 70/12; 71/11; 73/21; 74/14-15; 75/14; 84/18
Botrell, William – 1/11; 1/21; 2/19; 10/22; 25/15; 37/17; 42/14; 45/19; 62/14-15; 63/9; 63/14; 64/19; 65/21; 66/16; 66/18-21; 73/8; 74/6; 75/8; 76/20; 99/12
C
Carn Brea, Land's End - (see Chapel Carn Brea)
Carn Brea, Redruth - (see Hillforts)
Carn Galva (Gulva/Galvar) - 41/12; 53/7; 54/18; 56/7; 64/19; 68/11-12; 72/7; 84/2; 84/11; 96/6-11; 97/8
CAVES:
Chapel Carn Brea - 2/10; 2/14; 25/11; 31/14; 53/13-19; 57/9; 57/12; 57/14; 63/17; 63/23; 65/3; 65/12; 73/4; 79/2; 86/12; 87/2; 99/8
Chi-Rho cross - (see Crosses, General)
Coffin LInes - (see Spirit Paths)
Cooke, Ian McNeil - 2/9; 4/5; 6/16; 7/2; 9/8; 13/7; 13/9; 14/6; 16/19; 19/6; 20/15; 22/23; 27/7; 30/6; 41/13; 52/15; 53/23; 55/10; 55/24; 63/18; 64/14; 67/8; 74/7; 75/8; 93/15; 96/12-13
Cornish Archaeology (see also Book Reviews) - 57/24; 71/13; 74/17; 76/14; 77/19; 85/17; 86/14; 93/20: 93/21; 98/21
Cornish Book Publishers - (see Books/Book Publishers)
Cornish giants - (see Giants)
Corpse Ways - (see Spirit Paths)
Cromlechs - (see Quoits)
CUP-MARKED STONES:
E
Earthlights - (see Anomalous Phenomena)
Earth Mysteries Group - (see Cornish Earth Mysteries Group)
ENTRANCE GRAVES (PASSAGE GRAVES):
Destroyed/Possible:
Equi-armed cross - (see Crosses, General)
F
Flora Day - (see Furry Day)
Boleigh (Rosemerryn) - 1/5; 1/7; 1/9; 1/21; 3/7; 4/16; 9/13; 11/17; 13/7; 18/20; 19/8; 25/12; 30/6; 31/17; 53/24; 54/20; 55/12; 63/17; 67/11; 72/3; 77/12 ; 77/16; 81/19; 88/18; 98/14; 99/24Bosporthennis (see Beehive Hut)Carn Euny - 1/6; 1/9; 9/12; 9/15; 14/9; 19/10; 21/15; 35/18; 52/20; 55/12; 67/11; 67/13; 77/15; 81/17; 81/24; 98/14Pendeen - 1/7; 1/9; 9/12; 14/9; 19/9; 23/20; 24/19; 35/18; 53/20; 55/13; 60/9; 67/8; 67/10; 77/8; 81/19; 87/17Missing/Destroyed:Possible:
Full Moon Standstill (see Moon)
H
Hauntings - (see Anomalous Phenomena)
Hooting carn - (see Carn Kenidjack)
Hunt, Robert - 1/19; 1/21; 2/2; 2/18; 11/9; 23/24; 27/7; 28/9; 35/6; 37/14; 41/12; 42/14; 45/19; 54/21; 56/9; 63/14; 64/19; 66/16; 66/19; 75/6; 76/18-19; 94/17
Hunter-Gatherers - (see Mesolithic)
I
Iseult - (see Tristan & Iseult)
General - 2/15; 8/16-20; 8/24; 10/24; 11/2; 16/6-17; 35/14; 47/12; 55/8; 56/5; 59/7; 68/5; 68/14; 89/12-21; 99/5Holed stone - (see Betrothal Stone)Supplement - 46Entrance Graves:Menhirs:
L
Landscape Patterns/Effigies - (see Geomantics)
Landscape Zodiac - (see Zodiac)
Latin cross - (see Crosses, General)
Lights - (see Anomalous Phenomena)
Lizard, The -12/19; 17/20; 22/14; 27/6; 30/17; 48/7; 73/20; 74/10; 75/9; 76/8; 77/6; 78/8; 79/7; 87/14; 92/2
Treen/Giant’s (Witch’s) Rock, Zennor/Zennor Carn/nr.Land’s End/Trink Hill,(Twelve o’clock Rock)/
LONG CAIRNS
M
Maltese cross - (see Crosses, General)
Mazes (Leland, Rocky Valley, Troy Town) - 5/15; 10/24; 14/3; 24/12; 27/24; 38/4; 40/8; 40/14; 58/6; 59/5
Mên-an-Tol (see Holed Stones)
MENHIRS (STANDING STONES):
Destroyed/Lost/Found/Erected/Missing/Unrecorded/Repositioned/Recumbent/Broken up/Fallen/Possible - 3/24; 6/5; 7/6-10; 7/24; 8/2; 10/3; 13/3; 29/3; 30/4; 34/7; 47/11; 56/6; 68/6; 70/6-7; 71/6; 71/10; 72/2; 72/5; 73/9; 74/5; 74/8; 75/10; 75/15; 78/7; 78/9; 79/9; 80/9; 81/4; 81/5; 81/7; 82/6; 82/8; 83/8; 84/5; 86/8-12; 87/5; 87/10; 88/8; 90/8;90/10; 92/10; 92/11; 92/12; 93/7; 94/14; 98/4; 100/5Uncertain:
Mermaids:
Michell, John - 1/12; 1/18; 1/20; 2/7; 4/5; 4/9; 7/24; 8/2; 8/4-6; 8/8; 13/16; 14/2; 22/24; 23/3; 35/5; 46/8; 55/5; 55/10; 56/9; 56/24; 63/14-18; 67/16; 70 (obituary insert); 73/18; 74/8; 93/9
Minerva (see Sulis)
Mythic Routes/ Mythic Pathways - (see Spirit Paths)
N
P
Paganism - 1/18; 2/18; 3/20; 4/2; 4/18; 10/16; 19/16; 29/20; 31/20; 32/22; 33/22; 34/22; 36/12; 38/16; 39/20; 45/18; 48/18; 50/20; 64/18; 79/10; 100/16
Passage Graves - (see Entrance Graves)
Patterns in the landscape (see Geomantics)
Pellar - (see Lizard)
Portal dolmens - (see Quoits)
Q
Quaint stone - (see Cuntestone)
QUOITS (CROMLECHS/PORTAL DOLMENS):
Carwynnen - 3/14; 18/7; 25/5; 26/2; 61/13; 62/6; 68/3; 70/6; 71/5; 78/5; 79/19; 80/4; 82/3; 83/5; 84/8; 85/11-13; 100/7Chûn - 3/12; 9/18; 11/17; 13/8; 13/24; 17/14; 18/6; 21/19; 24/5; 32/24; 35/19; 61/12; 72/6; 76/10; 76/12; 79/3; 79/12; 79/14; 89/2; 90/16Possible:Newly-discovered:Excavation:Stone find:Pseudo-quoits:
S
Sacred Centre of Cornwall - (see Omphalos)
Saints (Cornish) – (see Cornish Saints)
St.Agnes, Scilly (see Isles of Scilly)
St.Bridget - (see Bride)
St.Nectan's Glen/Keive - 15/12; 17/19; 18/2; 19/4; 21/5; 25/3; 29/4; 34/6; 48/22; 49/19; 56/4; 62/6; 65/2; 72/9; 74/2; 77/24; 78/5
Scillionian Chambered Tomb - (see Chambered Tombs)
Scillonian Entrance Graves - (see Entrance Graves)
Sightlines (see Astro-Archaeology)
Spirit paths (Mythic Routes; Coffin Lines; Death Roads; Corpse Ways, etc.) - 20/24; 23/24; 25/15; 37/5; 84/24; 86/24; 95/7; 97/12; 98/12; 99/12
Standing Stones (see Menhirs)
Altarnun - (see Nine Stones)Belstone - (see Nine Stones)Boscawen-un - 3/5; 4/5; 12/4; 12/8; 12/12; 13/8; 13/24; 20/15; 24/17; 26/8; 29/6; 30/21; 35/18; 36/3; 37/3; 41/6; 43/10; 43/24; 44/3; 45/9; 48/6; 51/13; 54/6; 54/12; 54/18; 63/16; 71/7; 74/12; 81/9; 89/8; 90/20; 91/11; 92/13; 95/9-13Boskednan (Nine Maidens) - 2/7; 7/4; 9/19; 12/4; 12/13; 20/15; 29/6; 43/10; 45/9; 54/6; 54/12; 54/15; 54/18; 55/4; 56/12; 62/9; 62/12; 64/15; 68/13; 70/14; 70/20; 71/7; 76/21; 78/3; 96/6Duloe - 1/24; 3/4; 7/3; 8/3; 12/14-15; 13/8; 44/10; 54/13; 54/13; 67/18; 74/12; 75/12; 76/16; 86/3; 94/24Hurlers, The - 12/14; 13/13; 13/16; 24/6; 35/17; 42/3; 44/8; 44/11; 63/10; 63/13; 66/7; 66/8-13; 68/21; 70/11; 74/12; 76/21; 83/10; 85/20; 92/4; 100/2Merry Maidens - 1/4; 1/21; 2/24; 6/4; 12/4; 12/11; 13/7; 13/24; 21/19; 22/3; 24/17; 25/11; 26/7; 29/6; 35/18; 37/14; 43/8; 45/8; 46/4; 48/6; 54/6-7; 54/8; 54/15; 54/18; 57/7; 59/19; 70/14; 71/8; 73/12; 74/5; 75/2; 76/15; 78/7; 79/2; 86/6; 98/23Nine Maidens (see Boskednan)
Stone Circles - Alignments with (see Astro-archaeology and Alignments)
Destroyed/Lost/Restored/Discovered/NewUncertain -‘Soldier’s Croft circles’, Tregeseal Common
Nine Maidens, St Breock Downs - 8/14; 14/11; 21/16; 48/10; 51/14; 63/3; 67/4; 69/10; 74/19; 80/22; 87/24; 90/24Discovered:
Strange lights - (see Anomalous Phenomena)
Strange phenomena - (see Anomalous Phenomena)
T
Tau cross - (see Crosses, General)
Thomas, Charles - 5/11; 11/2; 13/4; 13/9; 15/4; 15/16; 16/17; 19/11; 20/11; 28/22; 30/10; 33/3; 34/5; 38/8; 38/12; 47/12; 47/18; 56/16; 56/20; 57/24; 58/6; 69/5; 70/6; 70/18; 91/20-21 (obituary); 93/22; 97/22
Tintagel - 13/4; 15/4; 15/12; 16/4; 29/4; 37/1; 38/10; 57/24; 72/9; 72/11; 72/9-22; 72/24; 92/4; 92/14; 97/6; 97/22
Treen Tombs - (see Entrance Graves)
Trewellard Common - (see Menhirs, Carn Eanes)
W
Wassailing – 97/19
Weatherhill, Craig - 1/5; 1/13; 2/24; 14/3; 15/14; 22/6; 25/16; 31/14; 33/14; 36/21; 36/24; 43/6; 52/15; 53/15; 59/20; 63/14; 64/18; 71/12; 73/21
Chapel Downs (Sancreed) - 1/17; 2/25; 4/11; 11/16; 21/10; 36/3; 37/3; 40/6; 41/11; 46/3; 47/3; 49/4; 59/5; 70/21; 71/18-21Fenton Bebibell etc. - (see under Venton Bebibell)Garry – 91/17Gunwalloe – 90/4Madron - 1/15; 1/17; 1/19-20; 2/19; 2/25; 4/13; 11/5; 11/8; 11/10; 18/24; 21/8; 25/13; 28/21; 32/24; 36/3; 37/3; 37/15; 37/22; 40/7; 44/3; 46/3; 51/9/ 61/5; 70/15; 94/3Maudlin – 97/11Old Moll’s, Kenidjack Common – 98/10Quethiock – 96/17Ruzza, Tresean Common - 94/6Sancreed - (see Chapel Downs, above)St.Benet’s Abbey (nr.Lanivet) – 98/11St.Congar (nr. Lanivet) – 98/11St.Just-in-Penwith - (see Venton East)St.Ladoca – 93/18St.Nun (Rosteague) - 99/11Venton Bebibell - 2/25; 4/14; 52/9; 61/3; 64/14; 70/4; 73/4; 76/4; 79/4; 82/4; 85/5; 91/4; 94/4; 99/4Lost/Found/Restored/Forgotten/Uncovered:Old Moll’s, Kenidjack Common – 98/10St.Ann’s Well (Trewoofe) – 95/6
Witchcraft in Cornwall - 25/21; 29/14; 30/14; 43/14; 43/17; 46/14; 58/18; 58/20; 59/21; 83/20; 87/20
Wood, William, parson – 93/18
Y
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