A Neolithic earthenware bowl, c. 3700–3000 BC, found at Carn Brea, Cornwall, and made using clay from The Lizard.pic.twitter.com/FfXOUuDn4y
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A Neolithic earthenware bowl, c. 3700–3000 BC, found at Carn Brea, Cornwall, and made using clay from The Lizard.pic.twitter.com/FfXOUuDn4y
A flint arrowhead from Carn Brea, Cornwall; over 700 flint arrowheads were found clustered around the main entrance to the enclosure, offering potential evidence for the site having been attacked: https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/environment-and-planning/strategic-historic-environment-service/cornwall-and-scilly-historic-environment-record/access-to-monuments/find-by-name/find-monuments-by-name/a-e/carn-brea/ …pic.twitter.com/ikrDnKt6sX
One of a number of late 2nd- to 1st-century BC gold coins found at Carn Brea fort, Cornwall; now in @Cornwall_Museum.pic.twitter.com/NMUwMUTBrS
A coin of Micipsa, King of Numidia 148–118 BC, has also been found at Carn Brea and is arguably a genuine pre-Roman import of the later 2nd century BC, see http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/06/the-distribution-of-numidian-coins.html …pic.twitter.com/JtNgaMQnIL
A closer view of Carn Brea hillfort, Cornwall, from an old postcard: https://penandpencilgirls.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/redruth-carn-brea.jpeg …pic.twitter.com/Pkv9dcSRWQ
A base sherd from a Roman Samian ware platter that was found at Carn Brea; now in Penlee House museum, Penzance.pic.twitter.com/myq9oKPv4k
The two structures now visible on top of Carn Brea are rather more recent in date; one is Carn Brea Castle, which was first mentioned in 1478 and was partly rebuilt and extended in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hamishfenton/10176873836 … & http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MCO127&resourceID=1020 …
The other structure is the 27m high Basset Monument, erected for Francis Lord de Dunstanville and Basset of Tehidy in 1836–7; it stands on the highest point of the hill, within the enclosed area of the prehistoric hillfort (pic=https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carn_Brea_Monument_by_Ansom.jpg …)pic.twitter.com/pbXqdN3ZLP
For more on Carn Brea in the Neolithic period, the excavation report is available online here—'Excavations at Carn Brea, Illogan, Cornwall, 1970-73': https://cornisharchaeology.org.uk/volume-20-1981/ pic.twitter.com/mvBs7cmD4c
Carn Brea seen from Trencrom Hill, near St Ives, another probable Neolithic tor enclosure.pic.twitter.com/wuWtzhOoA7
A view through the probably Iron Age east entrance to Trencrom hillfort, with Carn Brea visible through it on the horizon; in-between the two is the Hayle Estuary and the small Iron Age hillfort of Carnsew.pic.twitter.com/3s4FPQkBp2
My father's family were from Carn Brea, went back generations. It's a shame we didn't learn about this in history in my school in Cornwall as I child ... I may have taken a different path in life instead of only now doing a humanities degree aged 51, keep the posts coming please
It's certainly got a fascinating history! Good luck with the degree :)
Thanks. Spent hours playing on the carn as a child. Must get back to visit.
Don't suppose you found any coins up there whilst you were doing that...!? ;-)
Not that I remember!
Dash! :)
Oh, oh a DocGreen thread!!!
And @Antiproton_com here you go...
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