Boleigh Fogou

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Boleigh Fogou
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The Pipers standing stones near Boleigh Fogou
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Shown within Southwest Cornwall
Location Cornwall
Coordinates 50°04′17″N5°34′58″W / 50.0715°N 5.5829°W / 50.0715; -5.5829
Type Fogou
History
Periods Iron Age / Romano-British

Boleigh Fogou is a fogou near St. Buryan in Cornwall, England. Iron Age pottery was found at the fogou along with carvings that may have been brought from elsewhere. It is unusual in structure as it has more than one entranceway. [1]

Contents

The Boleigh fogou was the subject of a 1996 episode of Channel 4's Time Team . [2] [3]

Notes

  1. E Clark (1961). Cornish Fogous. Taylor & Francis. pp. 12–. GGKEY:9LW9GX7EEJZ. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
  2. "Series 3, Episode 1". Time Team. Channel 4. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
  3. "1996 Series, Episode 01 - Boleigh, Cornwall". Unofficial Time Team site. Archived from the original on 16 October 2013. Retrieved 12 April 2013.

Further reading

Julian Cope (1998). The Modern Antiquarian: A Pre-millennial Odyssey Through Megalithic Britain : Including a Gazetteer to Over 300 Prehistoric Sites. Thorsons Pub. p. 155. ISBN   978-0-7225-3599-8 . Retrieved 11 April 2013.