Faugan Round

Nearest town:
Newlyn (1km ENE)
OS reference:
SW452282
OS sheet:
203
Latitude:
50° 5' 54.57 N
Longitude:
5° 33' 48.11 W
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Images

Image of Faugan Round (Hillfort) by thesweetcheat

Field wall on the line of the original inner rampart. It’s impossible to know if these courses of stonework have survived from the original structure or just been rebuilt on the same line.

Image credit: A. Brookes (20.6.2021)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat May 8, 2022
Image of Faugan Round (Hillfort) by thesweetcheat

Stones Faugan, showing how they are perpendicular to each other rather than at right angles as you would expect if they were a pair of entrance portal stones.

Image credit: A. Brookes (20.6.2021)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat May 8, 2022
Image of Faugan Round (Hillfort) by thesweetcheat

Other than where they coincide with current field boundaries, there’s little to see of the two lines of ramparts. This is looking across the southern rampart towards the panorama of the West Penwith moors.

Image credit: A. Brookes (20.6.2021)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat May 8, 2022
Image of Faugan Round (Hillfort) by juamei

Open Source Environment agency LIDAR

Image credit: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015.
juamei
juamei Jan 24, 2016

Articles

Faugan Round

kingrolo
kingrolo Sep 24, 2001

Most of the tracks marked on maps are completely overgrown in Penwith and quite unusable without a scythe, which I don’t usually carry aound with me myself. This is a bi-vallette hillfort; it has 2 ditches (it says on the nice sign at the gate) and dates, so is reckoned, from around 500BC- 0AD and would have belonged to a local chief. I only found the inner ditch/wall to be discernable and it is quite a search to find a way in. Two standing stones stand in the NE of the round a bit like gateposts and if you look though them to the SW St Buryan church tower can be clearly seen and if you look NE through them Penzance Parish church can be seen. Funny that. And indeed the view up here is utterly choice. A good place for a fort maybe but also a good place to be on top of the world watching the sun rise and the sun set and the moon glide over the sea.

Topics

Disputed antiquity 3
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat
Jul 2012

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