<< Our Photo Pages >> Green Bay Prehistoric field system and Cist - Ancient Village or Settlement in England in Isles of Scilly
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Multi-periodSite Name: Green Bay Prehistoric field system and CistCountry: England
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County: Isles of Scilly Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Map Ref: SV87951465
Latitude: 49.950305N Longitude: 6.35161W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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At Green Bay, Bryher, are the remains of a prehistoric field system in the intertidal zone. It comprises isolated walls visible as lines of spaced boulder and edge set slabs and also small irregular enclosures.
These denuded stoney linears represent the core element of an extensive prehistoric field system, Just to the south and visible from 1976 though to the mid 80's was a Romano-British funerary Porthcressa-type cist, datable to the first to fourth centuries AD. Its visible remains included a setting of small slabs defining an oblong internal area 1.8m long, north-south, by up to 0.9m wide, infilled to within 0.2m of its side slabs by shore sand, It was excavated in 1977
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