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Carn Brea

Above Redruth, Cornwall

A Neolithic village that may have been attacked by hundreds of archers.

Carn Brea is a granite hill where people built a walled settlement around 3700 BC. Excavators found more than 700 flint arrowheads scattered across it, many near an entrance, and every timber building had been burnt.

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When
c. 3700–3400 BC
Where
50.2220, -5.2400
Group
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Visiting

Free. Paths climb from Carnkie; there is a monument on top.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
From the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

More than 700 flint arrowheads were found scattered across the site, many of them near a probable entrance. They may have been used by a large group of archers in an organised assault. That is a suggestion.

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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