A cliff walk on the first of a few days in Cornwall, and we came across these odd structures close to a coastguard station near Lands End. From the inscription on a stone in the base of one of them, they were erected in the 19th century. Presumably they were built to guide incoming shipping past off shore rocks – if the two structures are in line as seen from the see, a boat is on a safe course. At the time no doubt “wreckers” were still a potential problem, luring ships onto rocks before looting the cargo. And of course there are those musical Pirates of Penzance to avoid…
