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Prehistoric Hut?

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This could be a good lesson for me in the "read the fkn thread!" department, but...

Does anyone have any good directions to the beehive hut? I had a really quick butchers for it but was already quite badly sunburned by then so decided to go back!

A quick look at the site page didn't give precise directions either, I don't think! Otherwise I would have found it, wouldn't I? ;o)

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Moth, ocifant and I had real trouble finding it, despite excellent map reading skills, a comprehensive guidebook with diagram and a GPS! After 30 or 40 mins of scouting around, we DID find it. But it wasn't easy.

My guess is that it's Iron Age and was a structure not related to a fogou. Because of the surrounding field walls, and the way the hut is built into these, I doubt completely whether it ever had a earthen mound covering it. No evidence to substantiate this, mind!
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I've got some fieldnotes for it (& loads of others!!) from the Cornwall trip when we went that I've never got round to posting. I'll try to stick em up today at some point. But as Jane said in hers, me, her & Oci had a lot of trouble finding it, so I dunno how helpful they'll be.

Either I'm going bonkers (v possible!) or there's summat weird going on with the page for this site. If you search 'Bosporthennis' both the quoit & the 'beehive hut' come up, and you can go to the beehive hut page at http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/2945

On that page it shows in the 'breadcrumbs' as being in the Lands End Peninsula bit of TMA but it doesn't appear on the index page for Lands End Peninsula http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/419. Unless it's a sub-site under summat else, but then that'd show in the 'breadcrumbs wouldn't it?

And I notice it doesn't give the 'sites within...' boxes on http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/2945 either....

Mebbe the Eds could take a look & explain if I'm being a numpty or what?

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Moth