Carn Euny
Carn Euny is an approximately 2000 year old settlement from the Iron Age , which was founded between 500 BC. Was inhabited and is located in the county of Cornwall in England .
location
Carn Euny is located in south west Cornwall south of Penzance near the village of Sancreed. The excavation site can be entered at any time and entry is free. Parking is available in Brane, 600 m away. Other Iron Age settlements nearby are Chysauster and Chûn Castle .
The following megalithic sites can be found in the area :
- Boskednan
- Boscawen-ûn
- Chûn Quoit
- Lanyon Quoit
- Mên-an-Tol
- Merry Maidens
- Mulfra Quoit
- Tregeseal
- Tregiffian
- Zennor Quoit
construction
In Carn Euny, traces of human activities from the early Neolithic could be found. The first settlement with wooden huts took place around 200 BC. In the first century BC These were replaced by stone huts, the remains of which are still visible. The people of Carn Euny made a living from agriculture , livestock farming , trade and perhaps also tin mining during this period . The most important structure of the excavation site is undoubtedly the Fogou ( Cornish for cave ), an artificially created underground passage covered with massive stone slabs. Its purpose is unclear. Carn Euny's Fogou is particularly well preserved and consists of a corridor over 20 m long, a side corridor that leads to a round stone-lined chamber, the ceiling of which has collapsed, and a small tunnel that may represent a second entrance. There were also houses with converted courtyards.
Research history
The plant was discovered in the early 19th century while searching for tin deposits. Between 1863 and 1868 the prehistorian William Copeland Borlase examined the site archaeologically and had the Fogou exposed. The graphic artist John Thomas Blight made appropriate etchings for the excavation report. During the 1920s, Dr. Favell and Canon Taylor first created the foundations of houses with courtyards. Extensive excavations were carried out between 1964 and 1972, during which nine foundations were discovered. The Fogou and the round chamber have been examined and restored. Four major settlement phases between the 5th century BC BC and the 4th century AD could be detected.
literature
- Patricia M. Christie: Carn Euny, Cornwall. HMSO, London 1968.
- Ian McNeil Cooke: Standing Stones of the Land's End. An inquiry into their function . Men-an-Tol Studio, Cornwall 1998, ISBN 0951237195 .
- Homer Sykes: Mysterious Britain - Fact and Folklore . Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1993, ISBN 0297831968 , p. 5.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.15225
- ↑ http://www.stonepages.com/england/carneuny.html
- ↑ http://www.historic-cornwall.org.uk/a2m/rom_british/courtyard_house/carn_euny/carn_euny.htm
See also
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Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 9.8 ″ N , 5 ° 38 ′ 2.2 ″ W.