pre-history

Philip Marsden gets close to the impenetrable secrets of Tintagel (left) and Bodmin Moor (right), among many other mysterious sites

The bonkers (and not-so-bonkers) theories of what the pre-historic people of Cornwall believed

18 October 2014 9:00 am

Philip Marsden’s book is about place. He makes a distinction between place and space. In his mind ‘place’ is something…

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