Gugh (pronounced to rhyme with 'hugh'; Cornish: Keow meaning hedge banks) is a tidal island in the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom. St Agnes (Aganas is the southernmost populated Island of the Isles of Scilly, England, United Kingdom. For the Cornish-English dialect see West Country dialects and List of Cornish dialect words. A tidal island is a piece of land that is connected to the mainland by a natural or man-made Causeway that is exposed at low Tide and submerged at high tide The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located It has two houses, and a total population of three (2001 census). It is joined to the island of St. Agnes by a sandbar, known as the Gugh Bar, which is exposed only at low tide. St Agnes (Aganas is the southernmost populated Island of the Isles of Scilly, England, United Kingdom.
Its name is often mispronounced as ‘Goo’, ‘Guff’ or even ‘Gogh’.
Archaeological features on Gugh include:
- Kittern Hill, a burial chamber or "dolmen"
- The Old Man of Gugh, a Bronze Age 2. A dolmen (also known as cromlech, anta, Hünengrab, Hunebed, Goindol, quoit, and portal dolmen) is a type of The term Bronze Age refers to a period in human cultural development when the most advanced Metalworking (at least in systematic and widespread use included techniques for 7 m tall standing stone or "menhir", which lies at the base of Kittern Hill. A menhir is a large upright Standing stone. Menhirs may be found singly as Monoliths or as part of a group of similar stones
- Obadiah's Barrow, a burial chamber
See also
References
- Weatherhill, Craig Cornish Placenames and Language
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