<< Text Pages >> Tolcarne (Mount Misery) Round - Ancient Village or Settlement in England in Cornwall
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Multi-periodSite Name: Tolcarne (Mount Misery) RoundCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 0.458 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Cornwall Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Map Ref: SW461295
Latitude: 50.111172N Longitude: 5.552609W
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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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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Ancient Village or Settlement in Cornwall
Tolcarne (Mount Misery) Round - The 1878 OS map names/shows Tolcarne Round at this location (See photos), Suggesting that this is the site of a round or Iron Age/Romano-British enclosed settlement. Henderson suggests that there may be remains of an enclosing rampart and ditch on the south side of Mount Misery or Tolcarne. Russell lists this as a possible hillfort, noting that the place-name Kesteltalcarn is recorded in 1302.
There is indeed a large artifical mound in the midde of the supposed round, To the North East of this mound, On a flat platform at the highest point of the possible settlement are what looks to be various prehistoric hut sites and enclosure walls. From the mound the land falls fairly steeply down to the South, Where there is what looks to be fairly modern walls, They do follow the supposed course of the rounds enclosure defences that's to be seen on the old map, There was certainly something/lots going on here in the past, but without excavation it's hard to know what exactly
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