King Doniert's Stone
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Just up the road from Redgate can be found King Doniert's Stone. Doniert (or Dunrgarth) was one of Cornwall's last Kings, who was drowned while hunting (or fighting!), in the River Fowey at Golitha Falls in the year AD875. There are two granite cross bases, which probably had wooden crosses in them originally, and one (the King Doniert's Stone) has the inscription:

"Doniert rogavit pro anima" - or "Doniert ordered this [asks you to pray!] for his soul".

King Doniert's Stone and "The Other Half-Stone"

The second stone is known as "The Other Half-Stone", and originally, both may have been sited at either end of the original grave site nearby.

Commemorative plaque