Qualla: Chun Castle https://qualla.com/chun-castle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:10 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Chun Castle https://qualla.com/chun-castle Chun Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/chun-castle/ In 1700 the Welsh antiquarian Edward Lluyd climbed up to Chun Castle, walked its ramparts, and wrote that this fort showed military knowledge superior to that of any other works of this kind which I have seen in Cornwall. He was looking at walls then still close to their original height, perhaps twenty feet of dry-stone construction in concentric rings, with a well at the heart that held water even in drought. A century and a half later, the masons of Penzance and Madron decided that fine cut granite was fine cut granite, no matter how old, and they started carting Chun's walls away to build the new town. By 1886 the local antiquarian society was begging them to stop. They mostly did. What survives stands at five feet.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/chun-castle-wp/gbgv-chun-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Chun Castle: The Geometry of Defence https://qualla.com/chun-castle/ Chun is a ringfort, a round walled enclosure rather than the angular hillforts of southern England. The plan is concentric: an outer wall and ditch ring an inner wall and ditch, and the two entrances are offset so that an attacker who breaks through the outer gate finds himself t...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/chun-castle-wp/gbgv-chun-castle-the-geometry-of-defence.mp3 0:06 2 full Chun Castle: The Old Tinners' Way https://qualla.com/chun-castle/ Chun sits beside a prehistoric trackway, an ancient road that ran the length of the peninsula and was variously called the Old St Ives Road and the Tinners' Way. The fort overlooks the only land route into West Penwith from the south, and the Celtic Sea opens out below it to the ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/chun-castle-wp/gbgv-chun-castle-the-old-tinners-way.mp3 0:06 3 full Chun Castle: An Older Foundation https://qualla.com/chun-castle/ When archaeologists dug here in 1895 and again in the 1920s and 1930, they found pottery dating to the fourth century BC, with shapes and decoration closely matching contemporary work from Brittany across the Celtic Sea. The connections of Iron Age Cornwall ran south and east as ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/chun-castle-wp/gbgv-chun-castle-an-older-foundation.mp3 0:06 4 full Chun Castle: The Quarry Years https://qualla.com/chun-castle/ The slow destruction of Chun in the nineteenth century is its own story. In 1883 the freehold of part of the castle ground came up for auction as a tenement called Little Bosullow, and the sale notice openly advertised the large quantities of good building stone available on the ...

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