St. Michael's Mount
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| Waters | English Channel ( Atlantic Ocean ) | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 7 ′ N , 5 ° 29 ′ W | |
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St. Michael's Mount ( Cornish [UCR] : An Garrek Los y'n Cos ) is a tidal island on the south-western tip of England , 366 m off the place Marazion in Cornwall and has an area of 0.23 km². It can be reached either by ferry or, at low tide , via a narrow dam from Marazion.
General
The sight of St. Michael's Mount is similar to the Mont Saint-Michel in northern France, but is less well known. St. Michael's Mount therefore has less tourism and therefore does not have the corresponding problems of its "big brother".
A small port has also existed since the late Middle Ages and is now used to moor tourist ferries.
In addition to a subtropical garden, there are a few other houses and facilities, mainly of a religious nature, on the island or mountain . Like its French counterpart, St. Michael's Mount has long been a place of pilgrimage and enjoys religious and cultic veneration in relevant circles .
geology
St. Michael's Mount combines many characteristics of the geology of Cornwall in a very small area . It consists of the roof area of a granite intrusion that has penetrated into weakly metamorphic slate (metapelite) of the Devonian . The southern part of the granite is crossed by steep veins with old man mineralization . The old men are rich in the minerals tourmaline , wolframite and cassiterite .
The ocean-side outcrops have been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest since 1995 and are under protection.
history
As flint artifacts suggest, St. Michael's Mount was already in the Mesolithic between 8000 and 3500 BC. Settled. Even during the Neolithic between 4000 and 2500 BC BC people are likely to have lived here. No reliable traces have been preserved from the Bronze Age (2500 to 800 BC). Around 1700 BC The hazel forest surrounding the hill was flooded by the sea.
In the Middle Ages, there may have been a monastery on the hill between the 8th and 11th centuries. In a donation, Edward the Confessor gave the site to the Benedictine order of Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy. In 1424, St. Michael's Mount became part of Syon Abbey .
The oldest surviving monastery buildings date from the 12th century. The chapel on the mountain was built in the 15th century and, like the castle, is under private management, but can be visited. The noble family of Baron St. Levan , descended from the St. Aubyns, bequeathed the property to the National Trust in 1954 . Descendants of the family still live on the island today.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jonathan M. Pownall, David J. Waters, Michael P. Searle, Robin K. Shail and Laurence J. Robb: Shallow laccolithic emplacement of the Land's End and Tregonning granites, Cornwall, UK: Evidence from aureole field relations and PT modeling of cordierite-anthophyllite hornfels. In: Geosphere . v. 8th; no. 6, 2012, p. 1467-1504 , doi : 10.1130 / GES00802.1 .
