Lower Boscaswell Fougou Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House) : The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map:

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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Lower Boscaswell Fougou
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 15.4 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Cornwall Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Nearest Town: St. Just Nearest Village: Lower Boscaswell
Map Ref: SW37673484 Landranger Map Number: 203
Latitude: 50.155434N Longitude: 5.673939W
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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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3	Ordinary
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1	Awful
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2 Access:

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
4	co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3	co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2	co-ordinates of the nearest village
1	co-ordinates of the nearest town
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TheCaptain visited on 10th Jun 2023 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Dropping down from Carn Kenidjack, and after a slight detour to refresh myself at The North Inn, I head towards the coast and look for the Lower Boscaswell Fougou. Not being able to find it initially, I cheat and look it up on the portal. Ah, through the cow field and round the other side, over a stile and there it is. These days theres just a small chamber like space behind the opening, and daylight can be seen up a smaller side passage. Such a large stone area here, makes me wonder how big this might have once been. I'd better get on with my walk as time is getting on, and I have been getting further off route, so no time to try find the Pendeen one.

Catrinm visited on 14th Feb 2020 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Not hard to find, quite damaged

lucasn visited on 13th Oct 2018 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4

lucasn visited on 13th Oct 2018 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4

coin visited - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 4

Catrinm Bladup ocifant cazzyjane have visited here

Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.2 Ambience: 3.8 Access: 4

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**Lower Boscaswell Fougou** submitted by Bladup : Lower Boscaswell Fogou. (Vote or comment on this photo)

This ruinous above-ground fougou in the far west of Cornwall is covered by a large overgrown earth and stone bank. All that remains of the main passage is a stretch just over 2 metres long with height and width each about 1.8 metres. The passage opens to the west and the chamber is still covered by two large capstones. A roofed 1.48 metre long creep passage opens off to the south-west.
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