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Tintagel Cliff Castle - 2.4.2003
Easily reached as it’s a major tourist centre, but to go on the castle you’ll have to pay a few quid to English Heritage. It is a very impressive defensive structure and is very visible all along the coast. Although there is no actual evidence of it being an Iron Age cliff castle it is assumed that it was, given its location so close to other cliff castles and its natural defensive properties. Craig Weatherhill, in “Cornovia: Ancient Sites of Cornwall & Scilly” (Cornwall Books - 1985, revised 1997 & 2000) says....”The land bridge connecting the ‘island’ to the mainland would almost certainly have carried the defences of an Iron Age cliff castle before its erosion and eventual collapse c1300 AD”
PS - Vortigen's birthday (see below) is just one day away from mine.....I'm younger though....form an orderly queue...This post appears as part of the weblog entry Another Kernow Week |
Posted by pure joy
6th April 2003ce
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