A prehistoric burial site in a marvellous clifftop location, Ballowall was used throughout the Neolithic and Middle Bronze Age. The cairn, which is 67 feet in diamter, was concealed for many years beneath the spoilage of tin mining, but when finally excavated in 1878 revealed that the site was based around a round chambered cairn, entered by a covered galllery about 11 feet long.
St Just,
Cornwall,
England
A Neolithic hilltop settlement dating from about 3700BC. The site was used for thousands of years; as excavations turned up Neolithic remains, Bronze Age axes, golden Celtic coins, Roman coins, and later artifacts.
Carn Brea,
Near Redruth,
Cornwall,
England,
There are a number of so-called 'ancient villages' in the southwest of England. Perhaps the most well known is Chysauster, but just a short distance away from Chysauster is Carn Euny, one of the best preserved village sites in Cornwall. The village was occupied from the Iron Age to the late Roman period, and the remains include stone foundations of domestic buildings and an undergound passage of the type known as a fogou.
Brane,
Cornwall,
England
Chysauster was an Iron Age village inhabited from about 100 BC to sometime in the 3rd century AD. It was probably built by members of the Dumnonii tribe of Cornish Britons. The village is composed of eight courtyard houses, laid out in two rows of four. Outside the main grouping of houses is another stone house, and there are the remains of several outlying buildings in the surrounding fields.
Gulval,
Cornwall,
England,
TR20 8XA
An underground chamber believed to date from the 4th or 5th century BCE. The chamber was in use until sometime in the 2nd century AD. The fogou is located within an enclosing earthwork, possibly an Iron Age settlement.
Mawgan,
Cornwall,
England
King Doniert's Stone consists of the remains of two richly carved 9th century Celtic crosses. The crosses commemorate the Celtic king Dumgarth, who ruled the kingdon of Dumnonia until he died by drowning about 875 AD.
St Cleer,
Cornwall,
England
The quoit consists of one large stone supported upon three standing stones. It is likely the remains of a long barrow, or chambered tomb.
Madron,
Cornwall,
England
An intriguing monument consisting of two upright stones standing on either side of a round stone with a hole through the middle.
Madron,
Cornwall,
England
A circle of 19 small stones in a field near Lamorna, on the Lands End to Newlyn road. This is probably the best preserved of all the stone circles in Cornwall, and it is, unusually, believed to be complete and unaltered.
Lamorna,
Cornwall,
England
The remains of over 100 Bronze Age huts cluster on the southern slopes of Rough Tor. A smaller village is on the north slope, and a holy well, numerous cairns and burial chambers are nearby. The dramatic ruins of St Michael's chapel cling to the top of Rough Tor.
Camelford,
West Country,
Cornwall,
England
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