SW4028 : Carn Euny - Fogou
taken 2 years ago, near to Brane, Cornwall, England
Carn Euny is a settlement consisting of several houses and a fogou (an underground passage and chamber), built in three phases from the 5th century BC to 1st century AD. The surviving stone huts fall into two main groups, three large irregular enclosures of courtyard houses, and a group of round or oval houses. Excavations revealed traces of levelled platforms in neighbouring fields. In the fields to the north and east there were traces of ploughed down lynchets of a field system probably associated with the settlement. Traces of a road way were found at the village. The site appears to have been abandoned in the 4th century AD until the post-medieval period when the huts were considerably disturbed and largely rebuilt and the fogou blocked. Finds uncovered during excavation have included pottery, querns, spindle whorls, whet-stones, grinding stones, flint and chert artefacts, animal teeth, ashes, an iron spearhead, an iron 'crook' and a fragment of Roman Samian ware. The site is now in the care of English Heritage.
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