Qualla: Innisidgen https://qualla.com/innisidgen 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: Innisidgen https://qualla.com/innisidgen Innisidgen: Introduction https://qualla.com/innisidgen/ Climb the heather-and-bracken slope on the northeast corner of St Mary's, and you arrive at a low mound of stone and turf that has been waiting on this hillside for roughly four thousand years. Inside it, a dark chamber lined with coursed rubble and roofed by massive granite capstones once held the bones and burnt remains of Bronze Age islanders. Their name for this place is lost; the modern one, Innisidgen, comes from Cornish words meaning Ox Island, a clue that this granite shoulder was once surrounded by tidal flats rather than the sea you see today.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/s/innisidgen-wp/gbgs-innisidgen-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Innisidgen: Builders of the Drowned Land https://qualla.com/innisidgen/ When the Innisidgen graves were built, the Isles of Scilly were not yet islands. Sea level was lower, and what is now an archipelago of more than a hundred specks of granite was a single low landscape of fields, heath, and ridges, surrounded by an enormous tidal lagoon. The Bronz...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/s/innisidgen-wp/gbgs-innisidgen-upper-and-lower.mp3 0:06 3 full Innisidgen: Civil War Footprints https://qualla.com/innisidgen/ The story did not end in the Bronze Age. The same scheduled monument boundary that protects the graves also covers a much later layer of human use - the remains of an English Civil War lookout or earthwork on the hill. When Parliamentary forces and Royalist holdouts fought over t...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/s/innisidgen-wp/gbgs-innisidgen-civil-war-footprints.mp3 0:06 4 full Innisidgen: The View Today https://qualla.com/innisidgen/ Walk up from Hugh Town and you reach Innisidgen along a footpath that hugs the eastern coast of St Mary's, past granite tors, gorse, and outcrops scoured by Atlantic weather. Crow Sound spreads below to the northeast, a shallow channel that drains spectacularly at low tide. Beyon...

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