Fogou from Lower Boscaswell
The damaged, semi-underground Fogou of Lower Boscaswell (also known locally as Giants Hole) is west of Penzance , near the north-west coast of Cornwall (in England ). In the case of basements, a basic distinction is made between "rock-cut", "earth-cut", "stone built" and "mixed" basements.
The roughly oval chamber of the group of basements from the Iron Age , known in Cornish Fogou , has relatively high walls. The preserved part of the corridor is about two meters long and 1.8 m wide and high. A huge capstone of the corridor is now visible from the outside like a fall . In this short corridor area a sloping backward leading, about 1.5 m long crawl corridor begins on the right, which leads to the outside. The unusually large chamber covered by two capstones begins about a meter behind the crawlspace.
The entire structure is no longer easy to understand, as a farmer, we're talking about a once 10 m long corridor, is said to have destroyed it in the 1960s.
A Burnt Mound and the sacred spring Lower Boscaswell Well (also known as Hesken Well) are about 100 and 150 m away .
literature
- Patricia M. Christie: Cornish souterrains in the light of recent research. In: Bulletin of the Institute of Archeology. 16, 1979, ISSN 0076-0722 , pp. 187-213.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 20 " N , 5 ° 40 ′ 22.1" W.