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Chysauster

Near Penzance, Cornwall

A village of courtyard houses on a Cornish hillside.

Chysauster is a village of around ten stone houses, each built around an open courtyard. Their walls still stand up to three metres high.

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When
c. 100 BC–AD 300
Where
50.1590, -5.5440
Group
Circles & monuments

Visiting

English Heritage, open spring to autumn.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
Read the full story in the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

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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