A fogou or fougou is an underground, dry-stone structure found on Iron Age or Romano-British-defended settlement sites in Cornwall. The original purpose of a fogou is uncertain today. Colloquially called vugs, vows, foggos, giant holts, or fuggy holes in various dialects, fogous have similarities with souterrains or earth-houses of northern Europe and particularly Scotland, including Orkney. Fewer than 15 confirmed fogous have been found.
A view inside the fogou at Carn Euny in 1868.
A carved stone ball (petrosphere) found at Jock's Thorn farm in Kilmaurs, East Ayrshire, Scotland.
Inside the main chamber of Halliggye Fogou, Trelowarren, Cornwall
Souterrain is a name given by archaeologists to a type of underground structure associated mainly with the European Atlantic Iron Age.
Neolithic souterrain on Canna Island, Hebrides
Panoramic view of a souterrain contemporary with a ringfort dating to around 700 AD, built within a much earlier barrow cemetery, in County Armagh, Northern Ireland
Plan and sections of an earth-house at Kildrummy, Aberdeenshire