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title: Halangy Down Village House
author: Jan van der Crabben
source: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/18831/halangy-down-village-house/
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license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
updated: 2024-04-18
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# Halangy Down Village House
_Authored by [Jan van der Crabben](https://www.worldhistory.org/user/jvdc/)_
## Image File
[](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/18831.jpg)
## Image Caption
Photograph of one of the houses found in the Halangy Down Village, on St. Mary's in the Isles of Scilly. It is an [Iron Age](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/Iron_Age/), Romano-British and early Medieval settlement that was inhabited roughly from 300 BCE to 600 CE. Many of the village's houses were interconnected oval structures, which was characteristic of dwellings in [Roman](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/Roman/)-era Cornwall. Excavations conducted in the 1950s and 1964-1971 found drains, hearths, benches, and other features that suggest the village was modified over 500 years.
Around the settlement there were several terraces for cultivation, as well as an extensive field system. The inhabitants subsisted on farming crops, keeping cattle, sheep and pigs, as well as fishing. The villagers were also spinning, working iron and casting pewter.
Nexts to the village lies Bant's Carin, an entrance [grave](https://www.worldhistory.org/burial/) that was already ancient when the village was built.
The site is currently maintained by English Heritage.
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## Bibliography
- [History of Bant’s Carn Burial Chamber and Halangy Down Ancient Village | English Heritage](https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/bants-carn-burial-chamber-and-halangy-down-ancient-village/history/ "History of Bant’s Carn Burial Chamber and Halangy Down Ancient Village | English Heritage"), accessed 15 Apr 2024.
- [Ratcliffe, Jeanette. *Scilly's Archaeological Heritage.* Twelveheads Press, 1992.](https://www.worldhistory.org/books/0906294533/)
## About the Author
Jan is the Founder & Chairman of World History Encyclopedia and is the organisation's Director of Design & Technology. He holds an MA War Studies from King's College, and he has worked in the field of history-related digital media since 2006.
- [Linkedin Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/in/janvdc)
## Cite This Work
### APA
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### MLA
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