Duloe Stone Circle and Talland Bay

September 2025

After a worrying morning of heavy rain it had become a gorgeous sunny day as I arrived, slightly late, at Duloe Circle to see a fairly large group of Tamar Dowsers all busily active in amongst the quartz stones of this unique circle.  (picture)  There were quite a few new faces which was a joy to see and also several old faces who had not been actively involved in our happy band for several years. Also some lovely Devon Dowsers had joined us for the day .

Nigel was busy in the centre of the circle guiding, explaining, and showing examples of the energies present and how to find them, especially to  the new dowsers, while other members were randomly scattered about dowsing their various quests and queries within the circle and its immediate environs. 

After a while of socialising, dowsing, and personal questing  Alex brought us all together where we individually stationed ourselves at a stone or a dowsed choice of seat on the grass. She had brought along a beautiful Singing Bowl and had sat herself in the centre  and began to play .

The bowl had immense energy to its vibration and our whole settled meditative group felt as if merged in another dimension as the energies of the sound brought down an etheric Light connecting us all to the Land below, the circle, and to the Cosmos above.  After she gently ceased playing we all 'disappeared' into a deep golden peace.  It was deeply moving.

Coming to, we were all soon chattering excitedly of what we had experienced and felt.

I  took the opportunity then do a personal quest to check for an energy line I had been following occasionally for many years and had map dowsed it to be most likely present at the Duloe Circle. I was gratified to find it arrived from through the eastern recently cleared hedge and embraced the whole circle of the magnificent quartz stones  before 'serpenteering' on in a westerly direction.

We all then settled down to our picnic amongst the stones .

After a while, having given our thanks to the spirit of the place and it's 'DuloeMagic' it was time to leave and most of us then travelled on to our next destination, Talland Bay.

We assembled at the steps down onto the beach where Alex had asked me to explain that here also was a suspected line I had been following for a few years. I was thrilled and gratified to find that most dowsers immediately found the said line crossing the beach from east to west.

More socialising, dowsing and personal quests then spread amongst us ... (pictures)

Then It was time for the climax of the days dowsing, so we all either drove up, or walked up the steep coastal path to the church of St Tallan perched up on high above us and marked out sight-wise by some magnificent Pine trees. I have long held that the golden resin of the Pine which also is a young form of the mystical 'stone' known as Amber is resonant with energies and past data . Hence Alfred Watkins fascinating discovery of finding pine trees as markers to a great number of his Leylines. But I digress.

We gathered at the top of the steeply inclined graveyard where there is a seat with a panoramic view of the sea and the bay below us .

It is up there that we were close to those pine trees and several felt the presence of the same energy line we had dowsed down on the beach, saw a subconsciously placed memorial boulder on the line in the field and could in fact 'see' the path of the energy line onwards on the opposite cliffs of the bay westwards. 

Also up there is the tower of the church of St Tallan and that was then the focus of much dowsing  with Nigel dowsing its ancient date as an early Celto-Christian cell founded on the sheer foundation rock beneath it.

We all then made our way back down the graveyard path to the southern entrance porch of the church which adjoins the tower via a curious stepped 'cloister' containing some ancient medieval stocks.  The stories they could tell !!

Inside, the sanctity was profound, several dowsed at the font and checked on the energies that embraced the whole interior with many finding fascinating spirals and 'special places' of power or deep peace. The northern transept proved particularly attractive with a strong resonance and carved symbologies of the Norman descended family who lay at peace in the vault beneath.

The time spent in this holy place was of a beyond-time nature with many settling down in a pew for private meditation or questing and thus the time passed with us all seemingly partly in another dimension .

  However, there was one more item on the days itinerary that had been so deftly organised by our Co-chair  Alex, and that was .....Tea and Cake down at the Talland Bay Beach Cafe!!!  

 It was by now getting late in the afternoon so we made our way back down the steep path to a wonderful social group get-together with much lively discussions of thoughts and experiences gained by such a successful and  wonderful day out . 

Heres to plenty more of the same !!! 

Stu 

The Tower of St Tallan

Few sites in Cornwall can be of more interest to dowsers - yet be so scantily recorded - as the Tower of the church of St Tallan on the south coast.  This is possibly because any visit to Talland Bay, beautiful though it is, is something of a single track nightmare, whichever way you approach it - and especially in high season.

Although Talland Bay has a historical association with smuggling, it should be better known for its more spiritual and religious buildings. Certainly, the tower on the headland would have been a significant day-marker for mainstream seafarers and smugglers alike across the centuries, but that seems to be only part of the picture.

The church itself has considerable charm, with all the features you might expect to find in what is quite a sizeable structure for a remote fishing village.  Our dowsing indicated that the church, first built in wood, followed by a 12^th century stone construction, was doubled in capacity a couple of hundred years later. It was around this time that the 'new' church was connected to its adjacent tower by a covered walkway.

 According to the published information, there has been a Christian presence on this site for around 1500 years. This implies a 6^th century religious building, which would make it a very early site indeed. 

What is less well 

recorded is that the detached tower appears 

to predate the separated church by some  margin. Our dowsing indicated a wooden structure, on the site of the present stone edifice, as early as 

750CE - and maybe

something even more significant existed 

there millennia before that.

However, and as ever, the arrival of the new religion seems to have overwritten the pre-existing elements of the site. My dowsing suggest that the first marker at this place was a modest menhir, perhaps some two metres tall, with other standing stones close by. The location of such a standing stone has huge significance, which can be sensed and verified by anyone with a modicum of dowsing experience.

Apparently, the tower itself is cut directly into the natural stone bedrock and it is criss-crossed by energy, ley and grid lines in a manner that would render some better known sites comparatively insignificant. I would be fascinated to dowse - or indeed to see - inside the tower itself. The previous time I visited Talland Bay, the space under the tower was being used as a furniture store and was therefore inaccessible for mundane, modern reasons. Whether there could be the remnants of the history which the tower now encloses is probably unlikely - and I am sure that Cornish archaeologists would have found out something about that at some point. However, the dense concentration of dowsable currents does suggest that the ancient function of the tower has been substantially more important than it appears at first sight.

Another major earth energy line currently being traced along the south Cornish coast, by TD member Stuart Dow, also runs through this site - adding to the complexity of understanding it.

Many reading this piece will be aware of my interest in the 'celestial grid lines' first mooted some years ago by the experienced British dowser, Billy Gawn. Here, I found myself taking his idea further in finding that the physical walls of the tower dowse as being precisely defined by something I am currently calling Stellar Lines - ie grid lines that do not respond to the sun, moon or planets, but to the stars. Quite which stars we are talking about, and indeed where this takes our understanding of earth energies, I have absolutely no idea - but it is a fascinating concept!

From a dowser's perspective, the relative inaccessibility of Talland Bay is in a direct correspondence with its status for those with an interest in our craft. It is a compelling - and often quite quiet place - with something of interest for dowsers of all persuasions.

Well done to Alex for setting up this visit.  The subsequent post-event refreshments at The Smugglers Rest tea rooms were a highly appropriate finale to a most enjoyable outing.

Nigel Twinn

Tamar Dowsers

September 2025