Archaeological and Historical Sites
in Scilly
The Isles of Scilly have a greater density of ancient sites than anywhere else in the British Isles.
They include:
Bronze Age entrance graves at Bant's Carn, Innisidgen, Buzza Hill and Porth Hellick on St Mary's, Obadiah's Barrow on Gugh and many others

- a Bronze Age and Iron Age settlement re-used as a Romano-British shrine on Nornour
- early Christian chapels on St Helen's, Teän and St Martin's
- Tudor and Civil War castles on St Mary's and Tresco
- a unique sequence of defences dating from the late 16th century to the Second World War on the Garrison, St Mary's
- ruined post-mediaeval houses on Samson
- a maze, windmills, kelp pits, gun batteries, lighthouses, smugglers' caches ..... and much more!
You can visit many of these sites on a short
break based on Bryher
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more details.