By 1850 a Cornish hedge ran through Boscawen's circle; c.1862 the landowner removed it and ringed the stones with a hedge instead — an early act of preservation. In 1928 Henry Jenner inaugurated the Cornish Gorsedd there, citing Welsh triads traced to Iolo Morgan, exposed as a forger. 🏛️
Hedge cut through Boscawen removed in 1862; Gorsedd inaugurated there in 1928
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- William Blore mapped the site in 1754.
- By 1850 a Cornish hedge ran through the stone circle; around 1862 the landowner removed it and had a hedge built around the stones instead, which the speakers describe as an early act of ancient monument preservation.
- In September 1928 Henry Jenner inaugurated the Cornish Gorsedd at Boscawen, partly on the strength of a Welsh triad poem naming Boscawen in Dumnonia as one of Britain's three chief bardic seats.
- The video notes that the triads appear to have reached the tradition through the 18th-century Welsh antiquarian Iolo Morgan, who was exposed as a forger towards the end of the 19th century, which the presenters treat as a problem for the bardic claim.
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