Chysauster
Chysauster is an Iron Age settlement in Cornwall ( England ), the v of the 100th It was inhabited until the 3rd century AD and is also classified as a basement . The course is about five kilometers north of Penzance at 175 m above sea level. The settlement was probably built by the Celtic Dumnonii . It consists of eight buildings in two rows and one outside the ensemble.
The complexes of coarse stone walls, which are up to 2.5 m high, are oriented in an east-west direction, the entrance is always in the east. Houses 4 and 6 are built on a raised platform. Each house is around 30 meters in diameter and has an inner courtyard around eight meters in diameter. There are several circular or T-shaped chambers around this inner courtyard, which are embedded in the outer walls, which are up to four meters thick. Building 6 has covered stone gutters.
In the complex there is a on cornish than Fogou designated basement , also has a hand mill to see. The Fogou was backfilled in the 1980s.
Agriculture is proven. The surrounding fields are enclosed by walls. From this it is concluded that the residents of the settlement kept animals and wanted to keep them away from the crops.
Today Chysauster is managed by the English Heritage .
Other Iron Age settlements nearby are Chûn Castle and Carn Euny .
literature
- Richard Cavendish: Prehistoric England. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1983, ISBN 0-297-78315-7 .
- Patricia ML Christie: Chysauster ancient village, Cornwall. English Heritage, London 1987, ISBN 1-85074-162-X .
- PK Baillie Reynolds: Chysauster, Cornwall. HMSO, London 1960.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 39.7 " N , 5 ° 32 ′ 25.3" W.