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Hut Circle
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Bronze Age 2500 to 800 BC |
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Kynance Gate
The settlement of Kynance Gate lies on a gentle slope on the edge of
open moorland above a turbulent stream which runs down through a
rocky gorge to the sea. ‘Kynans’ is Cornish for narrow valley or
gorge and the site may well have been chosen for its easy
defensibility on the seaward side. |
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Leskernick Hill
Leskernick is an extraordinarily well preserved Bronze Age
settlement comprising at least forty four round houses set within a
very extensive field system covering approximately 21 hectares. The
site is located on the extremely stony south-west facing slopes of
Leskernick Hill. |
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Rough Tor (North West)
To the north-west of Roughtor ridge, in open grassy moorland,
is a settlement of over 120 hut circles, small enclosures and
fragments of field systems. Laid out in a broad north-south band,
the majority of the round houses are linked by the stony banks of a
series of six small irregular enclosures. |
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Rough Tor (South)
On the southern slopes of Roughtor, below the area of dense stony
clitter, there are the remains of a large number of hut circles set
around three of four small enclosures adjoining a larger area of
curvilinear prehistoric field systems partly overlain by a mediæval
field system. |
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A prehistoric settlement consisting of stone-walled round houses,
usually dateable to the Bronze or Iron Ages. The houses, sometimes
solitary but more often in groups, are now visible only as low stony
banks, but even so, it is often possible to recognise different
constructional techniques in the walling and to identify the
doorways. They survive only in moorland areas and are often
associated with the remains of contemporary field systems. |
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