Halangy Down
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Halangy Down is a hillside at the north-west edge of St Mary's, the largest of the Isles of Scilly.
On the slopes of the down have been found the remains of a late Iron Age/Romano-British village,[1] which is now in the guardianship of English Heritage. At the top of the hill is Bant's Carn, a Stone Age buirial chamber.
Excavations of Halangy Down in the 1950s revealed a complex of eleven inter-connecting stone-built houses, most of them simple oval structures, and a wealthy of Iron Age artefacts. It is believed that he houses would have been thatched Iron Age roundhouses.
Outside links
- Bant's Carn and Halangy Down Ancient Village – English Heritage
- Halangy Down on Archaeokids
