Carn Euny Ancient Village

Carn Euny

This video is of the ancient village of Carn Euny, now in the hamlet of Brane, near Sancreed, near Penzance, Cornwall, UK. This high up ancient settlement has great views across Penwith and most of the present buildings are from around 4 AD but there has been a village here, which there may still be some remnants of, from long before the Roman invasion and possibly about six thousands years ago. There is the ruins of a 18th century house at the side next to the entrance to the fogou (which you see at the beginning or the video) which is an underground chamber. There is a holy well across the hedge and a burial chamber at nearby Brane farm. This is one of the best preserved ancient villages in Cornwall. This is one of my videos from the Lands end peninsular that I took on Wednesday 28th December 2016. The other videos I took from here are (or will be) on my YouTube channel and the other places I videoed on Wednesday are Chapel Euny holy well, Drift stones, Trelew Menhir, Merry Maidens stone circle, Boskenna cross, Boscawen-Ros East standing stone, Blind fiddler standing stone, Tregriffian burial chamber, Gun Rith standing stone and Chyoone cross.

Daddy D-Sant aka Baba @ Brane chambered tomb

Looked over by nearby Chapel Carn Brea. Public footpath from Crows-an-Wra (cross of the witch) to the hamlet of Brane, just before Carn Euny, which is a Romano-British settlement (free entry) and the remains of St Euny's chapel and holywell. St Euny/Uny/Euninus, patron of Lelant, Crowan and Redruth. Known as an entrance grave, is one of the smallest but best preserved chambered tombs in Britain. The outer kerb, if any, has been ploughed away, three or four kerbstones and a capstone have been removed, is now only three metres long. You will need to ask permission to visit, though I trespassed,,, forgive me!

Site Diary: A Bronze Age Village In Cornwall

It's the first day of excavation at West Northwood Farm, where the Venturers are excavating a Bronze Age village including several roundhouses. What will they find? We've got two weeks to find out!

Ancient Sites of Penwith

A video of just some of the ancient sites in Penwith in Cornwall

Full videos of them below:
Lanyon Quoit (also used at beginning) -

Men-An-Tol -

Merry Maidens Stone Circle -

Ballowall Barrow -

Sancreed Holy Well -

Trevorgans Cross -

Nine Maidens of Boskednan Stone Circle -

Mulfra Quoit -

Drift Stones -

Sennen Hedge Standing Stone -

Rospletha Cross -

Tregeseal East Stone Circle -

Brane Entrance Grave -

Lower Boscaswell Holy Well -

Boswens Menhir -

Chun Quoit -

Vellansaga Cross -

Boscawen-Un Stone Circle -

Carn Euny Holy Well -

Bosiliack Barrow -

Blind Fiddler Standing Stone -

St Levan's Holy Well, Porthchapel -

The Pipers Standing Stones -

Boscawen-Ros East & West Standing Stones -

End Credits (Castallack Standing Stone) -

All video copyright Lucas Nott
Music Copyright Adrian Von Ziegler

Please note that some sites included in this video are on private land.

Death comes to visit

An old woman answers her front door to find the Grim Reaper calling .. but she's more concerned about *his* well-being

Golden Chapel, nr Probus, Cornwall

On my way to find the nearby Holywell at Golden Manor, on t'other side of the road, a lovely chapel. So that's what one looks like. Though I could see the trickle of water, I couldn't really get to the well, t'was behind and underneath a hedge, further down the road from the Manor, on the right hand side, opposite the entrance to a huge ancient Romano-British camp/hillfort. This area was a well protected crossing of the river Fal. Back in history, this river was navigable up to here by small ships. Golden is a corruption of Wolveden, the family who used to live here, before the Tregians, who's family harboured the catholic priest Cuthbert Mayne for 20 years beofore his execution in 1577. Please excuse the sound of rain drops on my umbrella sheltering my camera...