| Static Image: | Entrance to St Piran's Round - geograph.org.uk - 1261441.jpg |
| Static Image Width: | 250px |
| Static Image Caption: | St Piran's Round |
| Country: | England |
| Region: | South West England |
| Map Type: | Cornwall |
| Official Name: | Rose |
| Cornish Name: | Ros |
| Unitary England: | Cornwall |
| Lieutenancy England: | Cornwall |
| Os Grid Reference: | SW776548 |
| Coordinates: | 50.351°N -5.127°W |
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Rose (Cornish: Ros)[1] is a hamlet in mid-Cornwall, UK. Rose is to the north-west of Goonhavern and east of Perranporth.[2]
Between Rose and Lower Rose is St Piran's Round (also known as Perran Round), a circular earthwork which could have originally been an Iron Age circular enclosure. It is considered to be the finest remaining example of a playing place or Plen-an-gwary – a medieval amphitheatre used for performing the Ordinalia, or Cornish miracle plays and hosting Cornish wrestling tournaments.[3]
An article in an 1880 edition of The Cornishman newspaper reports that the present use of the Newlyn Amphitheatre (or pit) dates from 1852. Before this it was, said to be a quarry and it now has a small house inside the boundary, for use by the Methodists for tea-meetings.[4]