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ST PIRANS ROUND

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Round later adapted for reuse in the medieval period as a plain an gwarry. The monument consists of an enclosure about 45m in diameter surrounded by a single bank 3m high and a ditch 3m wide and 2.5m deep with an entrance on the south side 4.5m wide. There is an internal trench connected to a pit which formed part of the remodelling as a plain an an gwarry.

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(SW 779544) St Piran's Round (NR) (1)

Piran (or Perran) Round... is a high circular earthwork, some
200ft.across; quite possibly prehistoric in origin, it is now the
finest remaining example of the so-called plen an gwary, the
medieval amphitheatres of Cornwall. (2)

Either a "round" used as a "playing place" or simply a
"playing place", the earthwork comprises a bank and external
ditch enclosing a flat circular area about 45 metres in diameter.
Now with 2 opposed entrances it would appear that only that on
the East is original as the ditch around the Western side can be
seen to have been continuous.

St Piran's Round is well preserved and is still sometimes used
as a theatre.

Resurveyed at 1:2500. (3)

Rounds are now classified Iron Age/Romano British. (4)

SOURCE TEXT

( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1963

( 2) General reference

Cornish Archaeology Society. Field Guide 7 1962 (F Nankivell) Page(s)16-17

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 ANK 04-MAY-71

( 4) General reference

CBA Research Report 7 1966 (C Thomas) Page(s)87

(5) Scheduled Monument Notification

11-JUL-1997

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