Location
- Atlas number
- EN0599 (599)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Sancreed
- National Grid reference
- SW40752903
- Latitude
- 50.10457
- Longitude
- -5.62706
- Altitude
- 195 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1769); Other (1908); Other (1997); Other (2006); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1876-1878)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006717
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO35 (second identifier 16048)
- National record
- record SW 42 NW 6; monument 422255
- Wikidata
- Q31114283
Sources
References
- Lawson Jones, A. and Herring, P.1997. Report to Penwith District Council: Caer Bran, an Archaeological Assessment, Unpublished assessment and evaluation report, Cornwall Archaeological Unit, Cornwall County Council.