What is a Celtic landscape? 

The great atlantic ocean buffets the granite cliffs of the West Penwith coastline.  The high craggy moors cut through the low scudding clouds.  The twisted knotty woods conceal groves where healing wells and clouties draw the prayers of the inhabitants,  the activities of covens and the rites of Druids .  The farms of granite and metal and barns sit quietly as autumnal storms clear.  The churches and cemeteries are as old as the lichen which live on their granite.  Pilgrims walk the sacred footpaths of the landscape meandering from night to day and saint to saint,  the mud of piety on their boots.

 

 

West Penwith, Cornwall, footpath, a Trojan landscape, Geoffrey Billett Photography, Sannyassa.co.uk

 

West Penwith, Cornwall, farm, a Trojan landscape, Geoffrey Billett Photography, Sannyassa.co.uk

West Penwith, Cornwall, slate, a Trojan landscape, Geoffrey Billett Photography, Sannyassa.co.uk

 

West Penwith, Cornwall, numbers in a barn, a Trojan landscape, Geoffrey Billett Photography, Sannyassa.co.uk

 

West Penwith, Cornwall, living off grid, a Trojan landscape, Geoffrey Billett Photography, Sannyassa.co.uk

 

West Penwith, Cornwall, tree and ancient wall, a Trojan landscape, Geoffrey Billett Photography, Sannyassa.co.uk

 

West Penwith, Cornwall, wooden cow, Trojan cow, a Trojan landscape, Geoffrey Billett Photography, Sannyassa.co.uk

 

West Penwith, Cornwall, looking back to St Just in Penwith, a Trojan landscape, Geoffrey Billett Photography, Sannyassa.co.uk

 

West Penwith, Cornwall, Pendeen churchyard, a Trojan landscape, Geoffrey Billett Photography, Sannyassa.co.uk

 

West Penwith, Cornwall, Pendeen churchyard, a Trojan landscape, Geoffrey Billett Photography, Sannyassa.co.uk

 

West Penwith, Cornwall, lichen, tombstone, a Trojan landscape, Geoffrey Billett Photography, Sannyassa.co.uk

 

West Penwith, Cornwall, looking towards Chapel Carn Brea, a Trojan landscape, Geoffrey Billett Photography, Sannyassa.co.uk

 

West Penwith, Cornwall, looking back to St Just in Penwith, a Trojan landscape, Geoffrey Billett Photography, Sannyassa.co.uk