Manorbier castle

I will be using larger photos from now on, as requested - don't know why it didn't occur to me before! Anyway, you can still enlarge them by clicking on them (unless they are ones which I imported from collectivecommons).

Here is Manorbier Castle from the car park. Though you probably wouldn't recognize it from this angle, it was the castle used in the tv filming of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in 1988, and it overlooks the beach below the village. A really lovely spot.





Looking back on the castle as I stroll down to the beach.

A stream runs down to the sea and just before the beach, it forms a beautiful clear pool which reflects the gorse, which is blooming well at the moment.

Looking westwards along the rocky shoreline.

To the east of the beach. Just around that headland is a Neolithic burial chamber called the King's Quoit. I didn't have time to walk along to it this time, so here is an excellent link with various views of it. http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=1398 and another:
http://www.stone-circles.org.uk/stone/kingsquoit.htm There was a very interesting comment by 'sem' on the Megalithic Portal site (a favourite of mine), which mentions if Rman remains can still manage to be covered by earth 2,000 years on, how come the Neolthic remains are so often open to the four winds? Hmmm, that's worthy of some thought, especially with reference to earth energies. It is also interesting to note the King's Quoit is positioned directly onto a fault line in the rock - probably considered a liminal area by the Neolithic mind, but is there more to it than that? It would be interesting to dowse there . . .

Here is a link for a couple of other pictures of the castle, from the entrance:
http://www.geocities.com/colinswalesuk/manorbiercastle.html