B/w print
Acc.no: PEZPH : 1990.432
Identification
Item: The view towards Logan Rock and Treryn Dinas from Porthcurno Beach
Description: Presumably this is a photograph of a painting, sketch or etching. Treryn Dinas was an Iron Age promontory fort defended by three ramparts. Logan is a Cornish word for a rocking stone. It takes but a gentle touch to rock these stones, but in April 1824 Lieutenant Hugh Goldsmith RN, with about 11 of the crew of HMS Nimble, having seen the stone from the sea, decided to rock it with too much pressure. It fell and the Lieutenant had to replace it at his own expense, said to be £130.8s 6d. (£130 and 33p) There are numerous drawings and etchings of the event. It is believed that the promontory was much larger in those days.
Condition: Good -
Description
Height: Mm
Width: Mm
Material: Photograph
Production
Method: Printed
Date: 1860
Person: Preston, Robert Hawker Peniel
Place: Penzance
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