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Porth Joke, Inner Kelsey
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0598
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0598 (598)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cubert
- National Grid reference
- SW76846070
- Latitude
- 50.40371
- Longitude
- -5.14179
- Altitude
- 15.4 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1020026
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO38379 (second identifier 25312)
- National record
- record SW 76 SE 4; monument 428420
- Wikidata
- Q31114282
Sources
References
- Harding, J.R. 1950. The prehistoric sites of the north Cornish coast, Antiq J, 30, 163-65.
- Pattison, S.R. 1849. Annual report of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, Annual Report of the Royal Institution of Cornwall,31, 36-7.