It is the accumulation of generations of fortress-builders from the Iron Age onwards.

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Dr Roger White, senior lecturer in archaeology and Academic Director of the Ironbridge Institute, said he could go along with the idea that this was an Iron Age route which was then re-used by the Romans.

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The disaster led the authorities to decide to mount the first lighthouse on Fastnet, one made of cast-iron, it being the metal of the age.

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Built in 1891, it exudes the genteel grandeur of a bygone tourist age, with a White House-grade portico, iron bedsteads primly clad in sheets, and an unapologetic absence of TV and air conditioning.

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Vidauban was occupied back in the Iron Age, and Roman ruins stud the area, as do centuries-old abbeys.

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