Bosporthennis, Cornwall, England, UK: at NE corner of a high walled, rectangular Medieval field stands the remains of an Iron Age corbelled round hut.
Bosporthennis, Cornwall, England, UK: at the NE corner of a high walled, rectangular Medieval field stands the remains of an Iron Age corbelled round house. View looking SE showing an original low entrance at the NW where the Medieval field wall (R) has been joined up to the prehistoric house (L). Sometimes described as a beehive hut or above-ground fogou, this structure closely ressembles the underground corbelled room at Carn Euny ancient village. The house stands in a relic Iron Age landscape SE of Hannibal's Carn including fields, hollow ways & courtyard houses overlain by Medieval & post-Medieval features. The field wall stands up to (8ft) high in places & may have been built to contain bullocks.
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Location: Bosporthennis Prehistoric Settlement, Zennor, West Penwith, Cornwall, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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