Calvadnack

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Calvadnack
Kal Vadnek
Calvadnack is located in Cornwall
Calvadnack
Shown within Cornwall
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Type Iron Age Settlement
Designated 2006
Part of Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape

Calvadnack (Cornish: Kal Vadnek, meaning prominent point) is a 130 acres (53 hectares) area of heathland 3.7 miles (6.0 km) south-east of Camborne in Cornwall, England, UK. Calvadnack is in the civil parish of Wendron. Calvadnack is south-west of the hill of Carnmenellis.[1] In the centre of the moor are the remains of an Iron Age settlement consisting of four round houses.[2][3]

Almost all of Calvadnack Moor is in the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape which has been designated as a World Heritage Site . The site was added to the World Heritage List during the 30th Session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Vilnius, July 2006.



References

  1. Ordnance Survey One-inch Map of Great Britain; Land's End, sheet 189. 1961
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