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 S showing the entrance to a small recessed room (L) with a cupboard to its R. The tall lintelled entrance to the R (SW) was probably knocked through later from the Medieval field. An original NW entrance is hidden in the angle between the curved prehistoric wall & the straight Medieval one (R). Sometimes described as a beehive hut or above-ground fogou, this structure is most like the underground corbelled room at Carn Euny ancient village which also has a niche & a megalithic portal. 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 niche contains a large quartz stone tied with a thin red ribbon & a bundle of rushes also tied with red ribbon.
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Location: Bosporthennis Prehistoric Settlement, Zennor, West Penwith, Cornwall, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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