What is recorded here

Penhargard Castle is an Iron Age defended settlement in Cornwall, England, where stone edges still mark a boundary drawn before written history. People may have gathered there to trade, worship or resist, while the land kept their footprints hidden beneath grass and rain. The name sounds like a castle because later tongues shaped it that way, but the truth is older and simpler: a place where humans made themselves hard to erase.

The National Heritage List for England records Iron Age defended settlement called Penhargard Castle as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

An Iron Age defended settlement called Penhargard Castle was occupied roughly between 800 BC and 43 AD, and is remembered as an example of early hillfort architecture and rural defense in pre-Roman Britain.

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