Fogou from Porthmeor
The Fogou of Porthmeor is near Zennor in Cornwall in England next to the round house of the Iron Age settlement of Porthmeor, which comprises at least eight houses and four houses with courtyards.
Along with Bosporthennis, Porthmeor is the only remaining Fogou that was built completely above ground. The Fogou Lower Boscaswell was built semi-underground. The originally roofed, linteled structure of Porthmeor, covered with a cantilever vault and a mound of earth, has been stripped of its upper parts and today appears as a curved ditch with dry stone walls on the sides . In the case of basements, a basic distinction is made between "rock-cut", "earth-cut", "stone built" and "mixed" basements.
The Fogou is about 13 m long and 2.0 m wide. The walls are a maximum of 1.36 m high. It has drainage over two thirds of its length . It is unusual in that it does not appear to have any slip. However, both ends of the corridor have interruptions in the wall, which suggest that the corridor bent earlier and was longer here.
See also
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.
- Rachel Maclean: The Fogou: An Investigation of Function. In: Cornish Archeology. 31, 1992, ISSN 0070-024X , pp. 41-64.
- Iain McNeil Cooke: Mother and Sun. The Cornish fogou. Men-An-Tol Studio, Penzance 1993, ISBN 0-9512371-6-0 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 39.4 " N , 5 ° 35 ′ 42.8" W.