Bodrifty Iron Age Settlement

In this area of enclosed moorland are the remains
of an Iron Age (600 BC - AD 43) settlement,
consisting of the ruins of eight roundhouses within a low enclosing bank.

THE EXCAVATION
The site was excavated in the 1950s and a wider area surveyed In 1985. Some Bronze Age pottery was found indicating occupation
An Iron Age round house
The people lived in round houses with thick stone walls and conical thatched roofs. The earlier houses were small and had doorways facing south-west; the larger later houses had doorways facing south-east, towards the sun but away from the prevailing winds. Fragments of banks, perhaps walls of gardens or animal pens, are attached to some houses. The surrounding enclosure wall was built to protect their cattle and sheep

The Roundhouse Reconstruction nearby built by Fred Mustill

Stone Circles
The Merry Maidens
Boscawen Un
Men an Tol

Settlements
Chún Castle
Chysauster
Carn Euny
Bodrifty Village

Quoits
Chún Quoit
Lanyon Quoit
Zennor Quoit

Churches
Warleggan

Giants
St Agnes Bolster

Other
Goonhilly

Bodrifty Round House - Reconstruction by Fred Mustill

 

 


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