A view from the Towans on St Ives Bay across to Carn Brea, nr Redruth, a Neolithic tor enclosure and Iron Age hillfort.pic.twitter.com/5FRfcNdQGL
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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
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