Bant's Carn Burial Chamber and Halangy Down Ancient Village are now the remains of an ancient Iron Age village in a wonderfully scenic location. On the hill above stands a Bronze Age burial mound with entrance passage and inner chamber....
Penhallam Manor House is the site of a medieval manor house surrounded by a protective moat. It was designated as a Scheduled Monument in 1996 and is now in the guardianship of English Heritage. The site is a grass-covered ruin showing the comple...
Tregiffian Burial Chamber in Cornwall is a Neolithic or early Bronze Age chambered tomb with an entrance passage, walled and roofed with stone slabs, leading into the central chamber....
Dupath Well is a charming well-house, built about 1500, stands over an ancient spring, believed to cure whooping cough. Dupath Well was built by the Augustinian canons of nearby St Germans priory, it houses the remains of an immersion pool for cu...
St Breock Downs Monolith in Saint Breock, Cornwall was originally 5 metres (16 ft) high and weighing some 16.75 tonnes. St Breock Downs Monolith is Cornwall's largest and heaviest prehistoric monolith. It stands on the summit of the St Breock Down...
Hurlers Stone Circles in Liskeard, Cornwall has three fine late Neolithic or early Bronze Age stone circles arranged in a line, a grouping unique in England. Probably the best examples of ceremonial circles in the south west, they are traditionally t...
Trethevy Quoit is located high on the moors, overlooking a meeting of streams near St Cleer, this impressive quoit is known locally as the ‘giant’s house’ and, although a sweet image, John Norden’s 16th century description of “a little hows...
Ballowall is a strange and possibly unique example of a prehistoric funerary cairn which incorporates multiple phases of use and funerary practice spanning the Neolithic and Middle Bronze Age periods. Sited on Ballowall Common overlooking the rugged ...
Carn Euny is an archaeological site near Sancreed, on the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall, United Kingdom with considerable evidence of both Iron Age and post-Iron Age settlement. Excavations on this site have shown that there was activity at Carn Euny...
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