17-10-2018 06:30 via theguardian.com

Country diary: walkers admire the long views from the stony summit

Linkinhorne, Bodmin Moor: People ponder the origin, alignments and earlier uses of this imposing placeOn this balmy autumn day voices carry through calm air on the eastern edge of Bodmin Moor. Two walkers stand out as silhouettes on the stony summit of Sharp Tor; others clamber across the squared-off top of Stowe’s Hill, where a prehistoric rampart encloses ancient hut platforms and natural rock formations like precarious cheese or cider presses. Nearby, in the Rillaton barrow, a corrugate
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