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<< Our Photo Pages >> Lesingey Round - Hillfort in England in Cornwall

Submitted by Palden on Sunday, 23 March 2003  Page Views: 11546

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Lesingey Round
Country: England County: Cornwall Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Penzance  Nearest Village: Tremethick Cross
Map Ref: SW45353037  Landranger Map Number: 203
Latitude: 50.118660N  Longitude: 5.563658W
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
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 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
0No data.
 3 Accuracy:
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
0no data
 4

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Lesingey Round
Lesingey Round submitted by Bladup : Lesingey Round (Vote or comment on this photo)
Lesingey Round is technically classed as an iron age hillfort but finds go back to the mesolithic. It is not a round. It probably accommodated 50-100 people in the iron age. It could well have been involved in the tin trade (not far from Ding Dong mine, Lescudjack Castle and St Michael's Mount).

Paradoxically, it is now covered in trees and surrounded with open farmland, but in former times it would have been approx the reverse. Well worth a visit at bluebell time. Maintained by CASPN.
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Lesingey Round submitted by WindC : Animated tree trunk guarding the site. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Lesingey Round submitted by Bladup : A winters Sunset at Lesingey Round (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Lesingey Round submitted by Bladup : Sunset at Lesingey Round (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Lesingey Round submitted by Bladup : Lesingey Round (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Lesingey Round submitted by Bladup : The large bank at Lesingey Round

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Lesingey Round submitted by Bladup : The bank at Lesingey Round

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Lesingey Round submitted by Bladup : Lesingey Round Defences

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Lesingey Round submitted by Bladup : The Interior of the Lesingey Round

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Lesingey Round submitted by Bladup : Lesingey Round, Defences on the western side

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Lesingey Round submitted by Bladup : Lesingey Round, The high bank at the north

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Lesingey Round submitted by Bladup : Lesingey Round, Defences on the eastern side

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Lesingey Round submitted by Bladup : The bare (as it gets) November interior of Lesingey Round.

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Lesingey Round submitted by Bladup : Lesingey Round (In the middle of the photo framed by the combe hillsides) as seen and looking over the old harbour at Newlyn

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Lesingey Round submitted by Bladup : Lesingey Round, The steep Northern defence

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Lesingey Round submitted by Bladup : Fantastic Trees inside Lesingey Round

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Lesingey Round submitted by Bladup : Lesingey Round

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Lesingey Round submitted by lucasn : Lesingey Round, with the planted field in front

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Lesingey Round submitted by lucasn : Inside the rampart of Lesingey Round

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Lesingey Round submitted by Bladup : The Large Northern bank at Lesingey Round.

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Lesingey Round submitted by Bladup : The Southern bank and ditch at Lesingey Round.

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Lesingey Round submitted by Bladup : The sun shining over the bank at Lesingey Round.

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Lesingey Round by lucasn on Friday, 04 October 2019
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Re: Lesingey Round by Palden on Friday, 26 April 2019
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Lesingey Round is technically classed as an iron age hillfort but finds go back to the mesolithic, and it is an important alignment centre in West Penwith. (One alignment involves Carn Les Boel, Boscawen-un, Trevarnon Round, Piran's Round, Men Gurta menhir and Stanon Circle on Bodmin Moor.) So it is probably more important than current records suggest. It is not a round. It probably accommodated 50-100 people in the iron age. It could well have been involved in the tin trade (not far from Ding Dong mine, Lescudjack Castle and St Michael's Mount). Paradoxically, it is now covered in trees and surrounded with open farmland, but in former times it would have been approx the reverse. Well worth a visit at bluebell time. Maintained by CASPN.
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