What is recorded here

Carn Brea stacks a Neolithic hilltop enclosure, a medieval castle and mineral workings into one living ridge. People climbed the same stone twice, first to draw boundary lines and later to break the mountain open for its contents. The hill keeps both purposes without apology.

The National Heritage List for England records Neolithic hilltop enclosure with later settlement and defensive structures, a prehistoric field system, a medieval castle and deer park and mineral workings on Carn Brea 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.

A Neolithic hilltop enclosure was later occupied and fortified in the Iron Age; the site remained significant through the medieval period when a castle and deer park were established, reflecting its strategic and economic importance.

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