Qualla: Caer Bran https://qualla.com/caer-bran en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:10 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Caer Bran https://qualla.com/caer-bran Caer Bran: Introduction https://qualla.com/caer-bran/ The name translates straight from the Cornish: Caer is fortress, Bran is raven. The Raven's Fort. Stand on the summit and you understand the choice of bird. The wind from the Celtic Sea drives gulls inland; black-feathered corvids hold the air, croaking, riding the updrafts off Sancreed Beacon, watching the whole tip of Penwith spread out below them. The view from Caer Bran is, even by Cornish standards, extravagant: a 360-degree sweep that takes in Mount's Bay, the Lizard, St Just, Land's End, Cape Cornwall, the Atlantic, the Hayle estuary. The Iron Age people who built this fort chose the bird as well as the hill. From this height, nothing could approach unseen.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/caer-bran-wp/gbgv-caer-bran-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Caer Bran: Walls Thick Enough to Sleep In https://qualla.com/caer-bran/ When the fort was raised in the Iron Age, the inner wall ran twelve feet thick, ringed around a space two hundred feet across. Outside that wall ran a ditch forty-five feet wide and seven feet deep, and beyond the ditch an earthen rampart fifteen feet tall faced with stone. A sto...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/caer-bran-wp/gbgv-caer-bran-the-tin-routes.mp3 0:06 3 full Caer Bran: Bran the Blessed https://qualla.com/caer-bran/ The name connects Cornwall to a wider Celtic mythology. Bran the Blessed appears in the Welsh Mabinogion as a giant and a king of Britain, a figure with parallels to the Fisher King who guards the Holy Grail in Arthurian legend. The grail castle in those stories is called Corbeni...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/caer-bran-wp/gbgv-caer-bran-bran-the-blessed.mp3 0:06 4 full Caer Bran: Sanctuary of the Little People https://qualla.com/caer-bran/ Cornish legend gives Caer Bran a second life as a refuge. In the old stories the hill was a sanctuary from evil spirits, a place where the Pobel Vean, the Little People or faeries of Cornish belief, made their home. Neopagans still climb the hill on festival days. Walkers come fo...

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