Fogou
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.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Historic site
- Description: underground, dry-stone structures found on Iron Age or Romano-British-defended settlement sites in Cornwall
- Also known as: “fogou”, “fougou”, and “souterrains in Cornwall”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Carn Euny and Caer Bran.
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.
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. Caer Bran is situated 1,800 feet east of Fogou.
Boscawen-Un
Photo: Waterborough, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Boscawen-Ûn is a Bronze Age stone circle close to St Buryan in Cornwall, UK. It consists of nineteen upright stones in an ellipse with another, leaning, middle stone just south of the centre. Boscawen-Un is situated 1 mile southeast of Fogou.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brane and Grumbla.
Brane
Hamlet
Photo: Elizabeth Scott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Grumbla
Hamlet
Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Grumbla is a hamlet in the parish of Sancreed, Cornwall, England, UK.
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.
Fogou
- Categories: underground structure, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Sancreed, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.10285° or 50° 6′ 10″ northLongitude
-5.63409° or 5° 38′ 3″ westOpen location code
9C2P4938+49OpenStreetMap ID
node 1685247013OpenStreetMap feature
historic=fogouWikidata ID
Q5464137
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Japanese—“Fogou” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “地下石道”
- German: “Souterrains in Cornwall”
- Japanese: “フーグー”
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