Bridges to Heritage - Tehidy Round Scheduled Monument

A new podcast is available describing the little-understood 'Round' at North Cliffs, Tehidy Country Park, a Scheduled Monument which has recently been awarded funding via the Heritage Lottery Fund for improved conservation and interpretation.

In this podcast you hear from members of Cornwall's Area of Outstanding Beauty Team who delivering the Monumental Improvement project, a scheme providing urgent care to 40 Scheduled Monuments across Cornwall to protect them for future generations.

The Round is likely to be of the Romano-British period (c800 BC-AD 410), during which a pattern of clusters of farmsteads being enclosed in ‘rounds’ with ramparts and ditches is seen throughout Cornwall. Six sites interpreted as rounds lie in the immediate area of Tehidy. At the Scheduled Round the enclosing earthworks survive quite clearly, having been preserved from cultivation by incorporation in the woodland plantation.

Listen here: Bridges to Heritage - Episode 6 by Cornwall & Isles of Scilly HER | Mixcloud

To find out more about Monumental Improvement see: A Monumental Improvement — The Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (cornwall-aonb.gov.uk)

If this podcast peaks your interest in this, and other hidden heritage features at Tehidy, come along to explore them at this weekend's Art in the Landscape trail: From North Cliffs carpark on 16th and 17th July.