page_title: Bodrifty
section_title: Archaeology
hierarchical_section_title: Bodrifty / Archaeology
caption_attribution_description: English: Hut circle at Bodrifty Too small to have been a dwelling; I would imagine this to have been some sort of store or possibly an animal shelter.
context_page_description: Bodrifty is the modern name of an Iron Age village, now in ruins, in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is 700 yards west of Mulfra Hill in Penwith District, 3 miles northwest of Penzance and 1.5 miles southwest of Porthmeor, on the high ground of the watershed between the Atlantic and the English Channel. Today the settlement is barely more than a farm within the boundary of the village of New Mill, just north of Boskednan.
context_section_description: The site is archaeologically significant in part because of the wide range of pottery shards discovered there. It was excavated extensively in the early 1950s and most of the finds are in the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro. An analysis of the styles of pottery suggests that Bodrifty was inhabited from the fifth century BC to the first or second century AD. The settlement consisted of eight structures surrounded by a stone wall enclosing about three acres.  The structures themselves had internal diameters of between three and eight metres. It is possible that the name means "the house by the summer shed" in Cornish.
caption: Hut circle at Bodrifty
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