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Acc.no: PEZPH : 2016.50.496

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Item: Caer Bran Hill Fort

Description: The hill fort at Caer Bran offers a 360 degree panorama of the Penwith peninsula and probably accounts for the defensive importance of this Iron Age structure. It has a circular stone lined inner wall 12 ft thick, enclosing a space 200 ft in diameter. Surrounding all this was a ditch, 45 ft wide and 7ft deep and an earthen rampart 15 ft high. Remnants of a stone lined causeway over the ditch at the original entrance to the N.W. of the fort, are adjacent to an ancient trackway, linking Penzance with Land's End. Three Bronze Age ring cairns are found within the outer ramparts. The fort was probably built to protect locally mined metals, tin, copper and silver which would have been transported to local ports. Caer Bran overlooked at least three Iron Age settlements within a 1/2 mile radius of the fort. The name derives from the Cornish word 'Caer' (fortress) and 'Bran' (raven or crow). The nearby hamlet of Brane is associated with the name which is a contraction of 'Bosuran' meaning the 'house of bran'.

Condition: Good

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Material: Photographic paper

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