St Michael's Mount — Submerged Land Surface
Neolithic to Medieval·Cornish / medieval monastic·🇬🇧 Cornwall, England, United Kingdom
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About St Michael's Mount — Submerged Land Surface
St Michael's Mount — Submerged Land Surface in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Neolithic to Medieval submerged-city attributed to Cornish / medieval monastic. Island causewayed at low tide, prehistoric submerged forest with oak and hazel, classical tin trade station disputed. Surveys document interior and comparative analysis.
Why it mattersImportant Cornish / medieval monastic submerged-city of the Cornwall, England region
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Chronology
- 02Landscape organisation
Theories
- 01Ceremonial aggregation
- 02Subsistence base
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c. 4000 BCE land surface; 8th c. CE priory
- Period
- Neolithic to Medieval
- Culture
- Cornish / medieval monastic
- Purpose
- Tidal island with submerged Neolithic forest bed, tin port of Ictis, medieval priory and harbour
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
c. 4000 BCE land surface; 8th c. CE priory
Initial construction
c. 1900 CE
Antiquarian survey
On the ground
Structures & features
50.1170° N · 5.4770° W · 5 m · 3 mapped features
- St Michael's Mount — Submerged Land Surface — Island Summit PriorysummitHilltop priory or summit50.1171° N · 5.4769° W
- St Michael's Mount — Submerged Land Surface — Submerged Forest BedpeatPeat and tree stumps50.1167° N · 5.4768° W
- St Michael's Mount — Submerged Land Surface — Tidal CausewaycausewayCauseway to mainland50.1173° N · 5.4773° W
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