Interior of a corbelled Iron Age round house with cupboard & megalithic portal to a small room at Bosporthennis, West Penwith, Cornwall, England, UK.
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4961 x 3741 px | 42 x 31.7 cm | 16.5 x 12.5 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
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Bosporthennis Prehistoric Settlement, Zennor, West Penwith, Cornwall, England, UKMore information:
View SE of the interior of a corbelled Iron Age round house at Bosporthennis, West Penwith, Cornwall, England, UK. The granite portal leading to a small rectangular room may have been the original main entrance. The cupboard (R) contains a large quartz stone tied with a thin red riibon & a buncle of rushes also tied with red ribbon. Sometimes described as a beehive hut or above-ground fogou, this structure is most like the underground corbelled room at Carn Euny ancient village which also has a niche & a megalithic portal. The house stands at the NE corner of a high walled rectangular Medieval field in a relic Iron Age landscape SE of Hannibal's Carn including fields, hollow ways & courtyard houses overlain by Medieval & later features.