page_title: Prussia Cove
section_title: Cudden Point to Prussia Cove SSSI
hierarchical_section_title: Prussia Cove / Cudden Point to Prussia Cove SSSI
caption_attribution_description: English: Fishermen's cottages, Prussia Cove Of course these cottages are long since derelict, but they are still used to store fishing tackle, lobster pots and suchlike. They can be found high above Bessy's Cove, in the Prussia Cove area of the Cornish coast path.
context_page_description: Prussia Cove, formerly called King's Cove, is a small private estate on the coast of Mount's Bay and to the east of Cudden Point, west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Part of the area is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest, a Geological Conservation Review site and is in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It consists of four small coves and several cottages and houses. The names of the coves from west to east are Piskies, Bessy's, King's and Coule's. The area is accessible by foot from the coastal footpath. The cove is known for the 18th-century ship-wrecker and smuggler John Carter, also known as the "King of Prussia".
context_section_description: Cudden Point is a prominent headland, owned by the National Trust which can be clearly seen from most of Mount's Bay. Together with Little Cudden and Piskies Cove, the area is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and is listed, for its national importance, in the Geological Conservation Review. The SSSI notification reads: 
   ″This is the best example in Cornwall of a mildly metamorphosed, differentiated tholeiitic intrusive greenstone that retains good relict igneous textures and mineralogy. It is characteristic of relatively large intrusive dolerite-gabbro sills in Cornwall and unique in that it is of tholeiitic composition and not alkaline. It is also internally differentiated and contains rare relicts of primary brown amphibole. The sheared and deformed marginal facies has a chemistry indicative of contact metamorphism by hidden, shallow granite extension from the nearby Godolphin diapir.″
  The vegetation consists of small patches of coastal grassland with colonies of the silver-studded blue (Plebejus argus), small pearl-bordered fritillary (Boloria selene) and grayling (Hipparchia semele) butterflies. Gorse (Ulex europaeus) and bramble (Rubus fruticosus) dominate on the more fertile soils. Above the headland is ″The Lookout″ built by the Government in the 1914–18 war for coastal observation and now used as holiday accommodation.
caption: Fishermens huts
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