![]() Might there be similar routes out there? I dug out my maps and fired up the computer. The papers described it as ‘one of a kind’ and this sparked my imagination. A cobbled track leading to the Hurler’s stone circle had been uncovered on Bodmin moor during an archeologically dig. In 2013 the newspapers reported that Britain’s oldest pavement had been found in Cornwall. The level of the field I have just crossed to get here is high above me, perhaps as much as 9 or ten feet, it is no wonder that these banks that mark the route’s way have become known as the Giant’s Hedge. The road cuts so deep down into the earth that I am standing on bedrock and that bedrock has a channel worn into it from hundreds of years of rainwater wearing its own path. This route once ran for 10 miles between Lerryn and Looe and was in use around 4000 years old. ![]() I am standing on Cornwall’s oldest ‘road’. ![]() The hedge towers above me, the moss is thick and bright green, lush ferns give the scene an ancient and almost topical feel. ![]()
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