Chun Castle A small, round fort, just 280 feet (85m) in diameter, is still impressive despite the robbing of much of its stone to provide paving for the streets of nearby Penzance, the rampart surviving in places up to 9 feet (2.7m) high. The fort is encircled by a double drystone rampart of granite with external ditches. There is an entrance on the south-west flanked by huge stone gate-posts. The fort was originally constructed during the 3rd/2nd centuries BC, and several Iron-Age round-houses discovered in the interior, were overlain by later, sixth-century rectangular lodges. Inside the defences was a blocked-up well near the north-west rampart, and several smelting-pits have been found on the site, one yielding a 12lb (5.4kg) lump of metal.
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