Bant's Carn Burial Chamber and Halangy Down Ancient Village

The remains of an ancient Iron Age village in a wonderfully scenic location. On the hill above stands a Bronze Age burial mound with entrance passage and inner chamber.

There is evidence of extensive and permanent settlement on the Isles of Scilly from around 2500 BC. At that time the sea level was lower and much of Scilly formed a single landmass.

Throughout later prehistory the sea level continued to rise, and it was probably at about the end of the Roman period that the islands we see today began to form, when the sea had flooded the productive farmlands that presumably occupied the sheltered valleys and flatter lands between the present islands.