Colom Veur is a civil parish and town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Often referred to locally as St Columb, it is situated approximately seven miles (11 km) southwest of Wadebridge and six miles (10 km) east of Newquay
The designation Major distinguishes it from the smaller settlement and parish of St Columb Minor on the coast. An electoral ward simply named St Columb exists with a population at the 2011 census of 5,050.
Twice a year the town plays host to "hurling", a medieval game once common throughout Cornwall but now only played in St Columb and St Ives.
It is played on Shrove Tuesday and then again on the Saturday eleven days later. The game involves two teams of several hundred people the 'townsmen and the countrymen who endeavour to carry a silver ball made of apple wood to goals set two miles (3 km) apart, making the parish, around 25 square miles in area, the de facto largest sports ground in the world.
Castle an Dinas, an Iron Agehillfort.
the Nine Maidens stone row,
the largest row of standing stones in Cornwall;the Devil's Quoit is sometimes recorded as King Arthur's Quoit in the hamlet of Quoitand King Arthur's Stone said to be not far from the Devil's Quoit near St. Columb, on the edge of the Goss moor). It was a large stone with four deeply impressed horseshoe marks. Legend has it that the marks were made by the horse upon which Arthur rode when he resided at Castle An Dinas and hunted on the moors.
King Arthur's Hall is a megalithic enclosure on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, England.
It is thought to be a late Neolithic or early Bronze Age ceremonial site.
King Arthur's Hall on Bodmin Moor
The monument consists of fifty-six stones arranged in a rectangle with a bank of earth around them and measures approximately 20m by 47m. The interior fills with water and a contemporary ground level has not been established.[2] It has suffered damage by cattle in the past and is now protected by a gated fence. It can be reached by footpaths east of St Breward.
The surrounding area contains many stone circles, hut circles, cairns and cists.
Origin and use
In the absence of any archaeological finds, its origin and use is only speculative. A similar enclosure exists in Brittany which was a Bronze Age cremation site, but a similar rampart construction at Lough Gur in Ireland suggests an earlier Neolithic date.[3] It has even been suggested that it was merely a medieval cattle pound, but the effort required to build the bank and to erect the slabs suggests that it had a more important function.[3]
Some clearance and investigation of King Arthur's Hall was conducted by members of The Heritage Trust in 2013/14.[3] Their work revealed a revetment wall built to retain the inner bank.[3] It was concluded that over time the earth had covered over the top of the revetment wall and that around 140 upright stones now lie buried, recumbent, or standing at an angle. It was suggested that the structure originally formed a tank which filled with water, possibly for ritualistic use.
