castle on the coast that gets flooded yearly

The mount is one of several candidates for the island of Ictis, described as a tin trading centre in the Bibliotheca historica of the Sicilian-Greek historian Diodorus Siculus, writing in the first century BC. Defensive stony banks on the north-eastern slopes are likely to date to the early 1st millennium BC, and are considered to be a cliff castle. A hoard of copper weapons, once thought to have been found on the mount, are now thought to have been found on nearby Marazion Marsh.

Radiocarbon dating established the submerging of the hazel wood at about 1700 BC. 2500 to 800 BC), although any summit cairns would have most likely been destroyed when building the castle. None of the flints, so far recovered, can be positively dated to the Bronze Age (c. Any Neolithic or Mesolithic camps are likely to have been destroyed by the later extensive building operations, but it is reasonable to expect the mount to have supported either a seasonal or short-term camp for Mesolithic people. At this time the mount would likely to have been an area of dry ground surrounded by a marshy forest. During the Mesolithic, Britain was still attached to mainland Europe via Doggerland, and archaeologist and prehistorian Caroline Malone noted that during the Late Mesolithic the British Isles were something of a 'technological backwater' in European terms, still living as a hunter-gatherer society whilst most of southern Europe had already taken up agriculture and sedentary living.

Other pieces of flint have been found, and at least two could be Mesolithic (circa 8000 to 3500 BC). The key discovery was of a leaf-shaped flint arrowhead, which was found within a shallow pit on the lower eastern slope, now part of the modern gardens. There is evidence of people living in the area during the Neolithic (from circa 4000 to 2500 BC years). Remains of trees have been seen at low tides following storms on the beach at Perranuthnoe. Its Cornish language name-literally, 'the grey rock in a wood'-may represent a folk memory of a time before Mount's Bay was flooded, indicating a description of the mount set in woodland. 4 Priors and owners of St Michael's Mount.Part of the island was designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1995 for its geology. St Michael's Mount is one of 43 unbridged tidal islands that one can walk to from mainland Britain. Historically, St Michael's Mount was a Cornish counterpart of Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, France, with which it shares the same tidal island characteristics and a similar conical shape, though Mont-Saint-Michel is much taller. It is managed by the National Trust, and the castle and chapel have been the home of the St Aubyn family since approximately 1650. The island is a civil parish and is linked to the town of Marazion by a causeway of granite setts, passable between mid-tide and low water. St Michael's Mount ( Cornish: Karrek Loos yn Koos, meaning ' hoar rock in woodland') is a tidal island in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

Castle on the coast that gets flooded yearly