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Lellizzick ( kw, Lan Wolesyk, meaning ''Woledic's church enclosure'') is a farmstead settlement in north
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, England. It is situated approximately north of
Padstow Padstow (; kw, Lannwedhenek) is a town, civil parishes in England, civil parish and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, England. The town is situated on the west bank of the River Camel estuary approximately northwest of Wadebridge, ...
on the lane from
Crugmeer Crugmeer ( kw, Krugmeur, ''great barrow'') is a hamlet in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated one-and-a-half miles (2 kilometres) from Padstow to the west of the River Camel estuary. The hamlet consists of half-a-dozen house ...
to
Hawkers Cove Hawker's Cove is a small coastal settlement in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated one-and-a-half miles (2 kilometres) north of Padstow on the west side of the River Camel estuary .Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 '' ...
. A gated vehicle track leads north from Lellizzick to the
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watch station on
Stepper Point Stepper Point ( kw, Penn Stuppert) is a headland on the Atlantic coast in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is at . Stepper Point and Pentire Point stand at either side of the mouth of the River Camel; Stepper to the south-west, Penti ...
. A permissive footpath leads south to
Tregirls beach Tregirls ( kw, Tregryllas, meaning ''farmstead of the ruins of an ancient dwelling'') is a farmstead in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately half-a-mile (1 km) north of Padstow. The settlement consists of a farm and conve ...
.


Archaeology

In the late 1990s, aerial photography by archaeologists revealed a number of circular and semi-circular crop marks in two clifftop fields near Lellizzick. Metal detectorists also discovered flints and pottery from the
Mesolithic The Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, ''mesos'' 'middle' + λίθος, ''lithos'' 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic. The term Epipaleolithic is often used synonymous ...
period as well as later artefacts from the post-Roman period.Report on Lellizzick investigation
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. Retrieved April 2010
In October 2007, the
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television series ''
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'' visited Lellizzick to investigate the site and the features revealed by the earlier aerial photography were confirmed by a geophysics survey. The resulting television programme, titled ''From Constantinople to Cornwall'', was broadcast in March 2008 (see list of episodes). The excavation and investigation revealed a roundhouse settlement.Padstow
Channel Four Television website. Retrieved April 2010


References

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