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St Just
After passing through the mining town of St Just carry on along the B3306. A minor road on the left gives access to a modest-looking hill of Carn Brea. From the car park at the bottom, a gentle track makes its way up to this moorland summit to get a tremendous view of the whole of the Land's End area.
The huge pile of stone on top is the remains of a complex Bronze Age burial chamber that was partly destroyed when a radar installation was put over it in the Second World War, but you can see parts of the inner wall and a stone cist.
A little further east and signposted off the A30 is the highly atmospheric Iron Age village of Carn Euny (unstaffed and always open) with ruins of several 2000-year-old houses and a most impressive underground passageway (high enough to stand up in), known as a fogou: it is still roofed and lined with stone and leads into a perfectly preserved circular chamber of unknown purpose.
Carry on the A30 towards Land's End. Just before Land's End itself, Sennen Cove on the right is a smallish resort village beside one of the rare bathing beaches on the Cornish northwest coast.
