Brane
Brane is a hamlet southwest of Sancreed in west Cornwall, England, UK. It is in the civil parish of Sancreed. It is noted for the Carn Euny Iron Age site which lies to the north.Photo: Elizabeth Scott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: hamlet in Sancreed, Cornwall, England, UK
- Also known as: “Brane, Cornwall”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Carn Euny and Fogou.
Carn Euny
Archaeological site
Carn Euny is an archaeological site near Sancreed, on the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It consists of evidence of both Iron Age and post-Iron Age settlement, with excavation on the site showing activity at Carn Euny as early as the Neolithic period.
Fogou
Historic site
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
A fogou or fougou is an underground, dry-stone structure found on Iron Age or Romano-British-defended settlement sites in Cornwall. The original purpose of a fogou is uncertain today.
Caer Bran
Archaeological site
Photo: Malcolm Kewn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Caer Bran Hill Fort is an archaeological site near Sancreed and Carn Euny Iron Age village, on the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Crows-an-Wra and Grumbla.
Crows-an-Wra
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Crows-an-Wra is a hamlet in West Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated in the civil parish of St Buryan, Lamorna and Paul approximately four miles northeast of Land's End.
Grumbla
Hamlet
Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Grumbla is a hamlet in the parish of Sancreed, Cornwall, England, UK.
Catchall
Hamlet
Photo: Michael Murray, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Catchall is a hamlet in the civil parish of Sancreed in west Cornwall, England, UK. Catchall is 1 mile south-east of Sancreed at around 310 feet above sea level at the junction of the B3283 with the A30 main road. Catchall is situated 1½ miles east of Brane.
Brane
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Sancreed, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.09892° or 50° 5′ 56″ northLongitude
-5.6322° or 5° 37′ 56″ westElevation
479 feet (146 metres)Open location code
9C2P39X9+H4OpenStreetMap ID
node 29282062OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Brane” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Brane (Kornualles)”
- Basque: “Brane”
- Cornish: “Bosvran”
- Ukrainian: “Брейн”
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