Chysauster Ancient Village
Location: Newmill, Penzance, Cornwall TR20 8XA
Telephone: 07831 757934
Email: bookeducation@english-heritage.org.uk
Website: www.english-heritage.org.uk
This Iron Age settlement was originally occupied almost 2,000 years ago and is one of the finest examples of such in the country.
The village was made up of of stone-walled homesteads known as ‘courtyard houses’, found only on the Land’s End peninsula and the Isles of Scilly. The houses line a ‘village street’, and each had an open central courtyard surrounded by a number of thatched rooms.
Today visitors can walk around the village settlement to gain a sense of what the houses would have looked like and how the settlement was laid out. There are also the remains of an enigmatic ‘fogou’ underground passage – the purpose for this could have been as a ritual building, a hiding place or a cold store – what do you think it was used for?
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