Kit hill Cornwall Chimney stack from disused mine shafts
Kit Hill has been a focal point for human activity for thousands of years. As the highest and most distinctive hill in East Cornwall, Kit Hill may have had a religious significance in prehistoric times, and traces of early man's burial and ceremonial sites remain today. A Neolithic Long Barrow (4 - 3,000BC) has been identified on the lower eastern slope. The burial mound is thought to have been a ceremonial meeting place, used in much the same way as a church is used today. Several Bronze Age Barrows (2,000 - 1,500 BC) have also been identified, forming part of a line of barrows along the ridge of Hingston Down. In all, at least 18 burial mounds have been recorded on Kit Hill's slopes, including one lying beneath the summit chimney. Traces of an early Bronze Age field system, on the northeast side of the Hill, have also been identified on aerial photographs. In more recent times, Kit Hill was an important strategic point above the natural boundary of the Tamar River. In the 9th Century, the battle of Hingston Down was fought on the lower slopes, when the combined forces of the Cornish and the Danes fell against the invading Saxons, bringing an end to Cornish independence In the 18th Century, in co
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