Andy Rodker's photos with the keyword: Crane Castle

Basset Cove, Crane Islands and North Cliffs, Cornwall. (Godrevy Island and lighthouse can just be seen).

I've probably posted this before now but I've run out of new Cornwall shots so the odd repeat will have to suffice! On the coast between Portreath and Godrevy at North Cliffs. Crane Castle, so marked on OS maps, is an iron age promontary fort where only the landward defenses remain; everything else having been swept away by the sea over the centuries. The inevitable will soon happen to the colourful slope you see here and then there will be nothing left of Crane Castle. :o(

Basset Cove, Cornwall, coastal erosion.

This has crumbled into the sea. It had ceased to be the coast path some years before this shot (it was moved some way inland). My last visit here (2018) and this would have been impossible to take a shot of. It had all gone!

Taken from the remains of the landward ramparts of the neolithic coastal fort, known as Crane Castle. The seaward ramparts have long since vanished into the sea.

Porthcadjack from Crane Castle, Northcliffs, Cornwall

Taken from the remaining ramparts of Crane Castle, an Iron Age promontory fort, now mainly under the waves.

Neolithic fortified headland (except the the headland has crumbled into the sea and this defensive rampart which was on he landward side is now right on the cliff edge). Hell's Mouth and Godrevy Coast in the distance.

Crane Castle was an Iron Age (possibly older) clifftop fort and settlement. It has fallen into the sea over the centuries and I am standing on what would have been the landward battlements. Maybe another 200 years before it falls away completely?