Lellizzick

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Lellizzick, also known in Cornish as Lannwlesik, is a farmstead in north Cornwall, England. It lies about 1 mile north of Padstow along the road from Crugmeer to Hawkers Cove. A gated track runs north from Lellizzick to a National Coastwatch Institution station on Stepper Point, and a permissive footpath goes south to Tregirls beach.

In the late 1990s, aerial photos showed circular and semicircular crop marks in two cliff-top fields near Lellizzick. Metal detectorists found Mesolithic flints and pottery, plus later artefacts from the post-Roman period.

In October 2007, the Time Team TV series visited to investigate. A geophysics survey confirmed the aerial findings, and the program “From Constantinople to Cornwall” aired in March 2008. The excavations revealed a roundhouse settlement that was occupied during the Roman and early medieval periods.