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<< Our Photo Pages >> Land’s End Iron Age Settlement - Hillfort in England in Cornwall

Submitted by Andy B on Wednesday, 12 February 2014  Page Views: 7114

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Land’s End Iron Age Settlement
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.185 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Cornwall Type: Hillfort

Map Ref: SW343252
Latitude: 50.067418N  Longitude: 5.714306W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 2 Ambience:
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4Good
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 4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Land’s End Iron Age Settlement
Land’s End Iron Age Settlement submitted by Antonine : Maen Hebask (tranquil stones), 2010 (Vote or comment on this photo)
One of the most important historical finds in Cornwall has been made - not by archaeologists, but by a family of rabbits. The bunnies set up home at Land's End last year, and began creating themselves an intricate network of tunnels underneath the historic landmark.

Among the soil they unearthed was a series of flint objects, which caught the eye of Land’s End staff member Eddie Williams. He passed them onto archaeologists who revealed they were a collection of flint scrapers and arrowheads dating back at least 5,000 years.

This prompted Land’s End to commission a thorough archaeological investigation of their land, which discovered evidence of an iron-age hill fort, a Bronze Age barrow cemetery, a Neolithic passage grave and a series of iron-age field-systems, all within ten minutes’ walk of the iconic sign-post.

The archaeology contractor 'Big Heritage' plans to create an 'archaeobunnies' ­children’s trail at Land’s End.

Read more at This is Cornwall and The Cornishman.
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Land’s End Iron Age Settlement
Land’s End Iron Age Settlement submitted by Creative Commons : The First and Last House at Land's End. Longships lighthouse is beyond, with a blaze of colour from gorse and heather in the foreground. Copyright Rod Allday and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Land’s End Iron Age Settlement
Land’s End Iron Age Settlement submitted by Antonine : Maen Hebask, 2010 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Land’s End Iron Age Settlement
Land’s End Iron Age Settlement submitted by Antonine : Maen Hebask (tranquil stones) (Vote or comment on this photo)

Land’s End Iron Age Settlement
Land’s End Iron Age Settlement submitted by Antonine : The stone circle at Land’s End with the settlement in background to the right, 2010 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Land’s End Iron Age Settlement
Land’s End Iron Age Settlement submitted by dodomad : Dumnonika Celtic Re-enactment Group and the East Dobunni (groan) Hunt. Who write: Following rabbits on Land's End pulling some interesting artefacts out of the ground, archaeologists have recently descended upon the headland, discovering evidence of occupation of Land's End from the Stone Age, through bronze Age and into the Iron Age, with an Iron Age Hillfort and field systems emerging. Wit... (1 comment)

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Dumnonika Celtic Re-enactment Group and the East Dobunni Hunt. by Andy B on Friday, 02 May 2014
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Dumnonika Celtic Re-enactment Group and the East Dobunni (groan) Hunt.

Who write: Following rabbits on Land's End pulling some interesting artefacts out of the ground, archaeologists have recently descended upon the headland, discovering evidence of occupation of Land's End from the Stone Age, through bronze Age and into the Iron Age, with an Iron Age Hillfort and field systems emerging.

With this in mind, it seemed only appropriate that we got in touch with Land's End marketing team, and sure enough, we managed to get a booking for the Easter weekend.

Set up with our camp (now two bell tents with awnings - going up in the world!) on the headland we spent three days entertaining and educating the public, as well as posing for countless photo opportunities with a great many foreign tourists.

http://www.dumnonika.com/dumnonika-blog.html and see above photo
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Re: Land's End Iron Age Settlement by Anonymous on Friday, 21 February 2014
I AM HAPPY TO HAVE FOUND YOUR SITE, I AM A NOVICE, BUT I FIND THIS STUFF
FASCINATING...RADARONE...
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    Re: Land's End Iron Age Settlement by Blingo_von_Trumpenstein on Friday, 21 February 2014
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    Hi Radarone,
    We are all novices really and yes this stuff is really fascinating. The best way to learn is to study. This site is the best site worldwide for studying megalithic monuments. You could spend many years just viewing the site pages. So I invite you to join megalithic and become a regular contributor. Download the google earth megalithic portal overlay - it lets you see the position of all the monuments on this website as a layer in google earth. You can only become more fascinated with each site you visit or study...Blingo
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