Castle-an-Dinas

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 hillfort, iron age
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Situated on the Castle Downs, this is one of the most impressive hill forts in Cornwall. Castle-an-Dinhas is surrounded by three ramparts and ditches and contains two poorly preserved Bronze Age barrows. However, a speculated Neolithic causeway pre-dates the barrows and indicates an earlier origin.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_An_Dinas
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Coordinates:   50°25'30"N   4°53'37"W

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  • Also the site of a mine yielding commercial quantities of wolfram, the ore of tungsten, until the middle 20th century.
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