Castallack Round or Roundago is a prehistoric site near

Castallack Castallack is a hamlet in the civil parish of St Buryan, Lamorna and Paul in west Cornwall, England, UK. It is on a minor road between Sheffied and Lamorna. Castallack lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Al ...

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, England. It is a

scheduled monument In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a nationally important archaeological site or historic building, given protection against unauthorised change. The various pieces of legislation that legally protect heritage assets from damage and d ...

. A "round" is a small circular embanked enclosure, with one entrance; they are common in Cornwall, and they date from the late

Iron Age The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and protohistory of humanity. It was preceded by the Stone Age (Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic) and the Bronze Age (Chalcolithic). The concept has been mostly appl ...

to the early post-Roman period.

Description

The site is near the summit of a ridge overlooking the

Lamorna Lamorna ( kw, Nansmornow) is a village, valley and cove in west Cornwall, England, UK. It is on the Penwith peninsula approximately south of Penzance. Lamorna became popular with the artists of the Newlyn School, including Alfred Munnings, La ...

valley. Part of the rampart survives; it is composed of large stones and slabs, height about and width , forming an oval enclosure. There was originally a surrounding ditch. On the tithe map of 1840, the round is depicted as having a colonnade of stones leading from the entrance in the south to an inner circular enclosure;

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, describing it in 1865, found that these features had mostly disappeared. To the north-west of the round there are thick stone walls, height up to : the remains of a structure with an internal diameter of about . This is interpreted as a courtyard house, a type of building that developed in west Cornwall from the 2nd to 4th centuries AD.

References

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