Chysauster Ancient Village
Chysauster Ancient Village is a late Iron Age and Romano-British village of courtyard houses in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, which is currently in the care of English Heritage. The village included eight to ten houses, each with its own internal courtyard. To the south east is the remains of a fogou, an underground structure of uncertain function.
Rooms in a building within Chysauster village
Over the top of Chysauster Ancient Village
Aerial View of Chysauster Ancient Village
Entrance to one of the houses
The British Iron Age is a conventional name used in the archaeology of Great Britain, referring to the prehistoric and protohistoric phases of the Iron Age culture of the main island and the smaller islands, typically excluding prehistoric Ireland, which had an independent Iron Age culture of its own.
The Iron Age is not an archaeological horizon of common artefacts but is rather a locally-diverse cultural phase.
The Battersea Shield, c. 350–50 BC
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View of the ramparts of the hillfort of Maiden Castle, 450 BC
Iron Age roundhouse, reconstruction