Chysauster Ancient Village

Chysauster is an Iron Age settlement in Cornwall (England ), which was inhabited by 100 BC to the 3rd century AD and as the basement. is classified. The site is located about five kilometers north of Penzance at 175 m above sea level. The settlement was probably built by the Celtic Dumnonii. It consists of eight buildings in two rows and one located outside of the ensemble construction.

Complexes of rough stone walls, which are up to 2.5 m high, are oriented in an east-west direction, the input is always in the East. House 4 and 6 are built on a raised platform. Each house has a diameter of about 30 meters and features a courtyard of about eight meters in diameter. Around this courtyard are several circular or T-shaped chambers which are embedded in the up to four meters thick outer walls. Building 6 has covered stone gutters.

In the complex is a designated on cornish as Fogou basement, also has a hand mill to see. The Fogou was filled in the 1980s.

Agriculture has been demonstrated. The surrounding fields are fenced by walls. It is concluded that the residents of the settlement keep animals and they wanted to keep away from the crops.

Today Chysauster is managed by English Heritage.

Other Iron Age settlements nearby are Chun Castle and Carn Euny.