Dozmary Pool
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Mysterious Dozmary Pool on bleak and brooding Bodmin Moor lies near to Colliford Lake, 2 kilometres south of Bolventor and but a mile from the famous Jamaica Inn.
The Pool's existence is an enigma, as no stream flows into it nor does it drain any part of the moor. Dozmary was first used by Neolithic man- and many artefacts relating to their habitation have been found at the site. The pool possesses a strange, unearthly beauty and is said to be bottomless and to possess a tunnel which connects to the sea, the name itself means drop of sea. The pool dried up in the year 1869 disproving the legend.
Legend continues to clings to Dozmary Pool, it must have the most persistent of the claims to be the residence of the mysterious Lady of the Lake of Arthurian legend. It is the reputed spot where King Arthur claimed the great sword, Excalibur, and to where it was returned by Bedevere, when Arthur was mortally wounded at the Battle of Camlann.
One of the candidates for the site of the Battle of Camlann is at Slaughter Bridge which lies but ten miles away from Dozmary Pool.