SITES OF SCILLY

The Isles of Scilly have a greater density of ancient sites than anywhere else in the British Isles.

They include:

• Bronze Age entrance graves at Bant's Carn, Innisidgen, Buzza Hill and Porth Hellick on St Mary's,  Obadiah's Barrow on Gugh, Works Carn on Bryher and many others

• Standing stones at Long Rock on St Mary's and the Old Man of Gugh

• Submerged prehistoric huts and field boundaries off Samson, Tresco, Bryher, Teän ....

• An Iron Age/Romano-British village at Halangy Down

• A Bronze Age and Iron Age settlement re-used as a Romano-British shrine on Nornour

• Early Christian chapels on St Helen's, Teän and St Martin's

• Tudor and Civil War castles on St Mary's and Tresco

• A unique sequence of defences dating from the late 16th century to the Second World War on the Garrison, St Mary's

• Ruined post-mediaeval houses on Samson

• A maze, windmills, kelp pits, gun batteries, lighthouses, smugglers' caches ..... and much more!