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Ashbury Camp
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0602
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0602 (602)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Week St Mary
- National Grid reference
- SX 2278 9746
- Latitude
- 50.74985
- Longitude
- -4.51335
- Altitude
- 134 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 2.27 ha
- Footprint
- 4.12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (South east); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1884); 1st Identified Written Reference (1801-1832)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1010423
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO21 (second identifier 2051)
- National record
- record SX 29 NW 6; monument 436509
- Wikidata
- Q31114300
Sources
References
- Henderson, C. 1925. East Cornwall Book, Unpublished manuscript at Royal Institution of Cornwall, 509.
- Henderson, C. 1930. Parochial Antiquities of East Cornwall, Unpublished manuscript at Royal Institution of Cornwall, 590.
- Lysons, D. and Lysons, S. 1814. Magna Britannia. Vol 3, Cornwall.
- Polsue, J. ed. 1867-72, Lake's Parochial History of Cornwall.