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Monday, 7 October 2024

Dry Tree Menhir and the Three Brothers of Grugwith .. Goonhilly Downs, Lizard





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Labels: breaking the 4th wall, Cornwall, cup and ring marked rocks, Dolmen, Dry Tree Menhir, Goonhilly Downs, Goonhilly Earth Station, Hookland, Lizard, standing stone, Three Brothers of Grugwith, Zoar
Location Goonhilly Earth Station, Goonhilly Downs, Helston TR12 6LQ, UK

Saturday, 7 September 2024

Sweet Track - Shapwick Heath



Rhingia campestris

Small Tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae)



Twin-lobed Deerfly (Chrysops relictus)

Long-winged Cone-head (Conocephalus fuscus)

Raft Spider (Dolomedes fimbriatus)







Accommodation, Food, and Drink

The Sheppey Inn

Shapwick Heath NNR

Shapwick Heath
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Labels: archaeology, Butterflies, Glastonbury, Invertebrates, Natural England, Neolithic, Raft Spider, reconstruction, Shapwick Heath, Somerset, Sweet Track, The Sheppey Inn
Location Avalon Marshes Centre, Avalon Marshes Centre, Shapwick Rd, Westhay, Glastonbury BA6 9TT, UK
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work and play outdoors; enjoy wildlife, pre-history, hillwalking, sacred landscapes. primary habitat chalk, found in woods, on moor and the occasional mountain
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