🏛️ Monuments in Cornwall

Cliff castles are coastal promontories adapted as enclosures and fortified on the landward side by the construction of one or more ramparts accompanied by ditches. On the seaward side the precipitous cliffs of the promontory provided a natural defence, on

Old engine house for defunct copper mine

The remains of an early medieval chapel, which is usually covered by wind-blown sand, the reason for its abandonment in the 13th century. Excavations in 1827 disclosed four phases of building and usage. The first in the 6th to 7th centuries when it origin