Description

Introduction

Archaeological excavation in a field close to Boden Vean, just south of Manaccan on the Lizard Peninsula took place over five weekends during September and October 2008. The site was chosen as a result of work carried out in 2003 when a team from the Historic Environment Service, Cornwall County Council carried out a programme of archaeological recording as part of an evaluation of an Iron Age enclosure and fogou. This original work was funded by English Heritage and came about because of events that began in 1991 when pipe-laying by the landowner led to the discovery of a shaft containing Romano-British pottery and to the rediscovery of a fogou (subterranean passage) which had been documented in this area since the early nineteenth century (recorded by Rev Richard Polwhele, vicar of Manaccan in 1816).