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Berry Castle
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0603
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0603 (603)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Neot
- National Grid reference
- SX19706895
- Latitude
- 50.49247
- Longitude
- -4.54338
- Altitude
- 274 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South east); Hollow Way (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- 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 (1440); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1813); Other (1882); Other (1973)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004455
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO25 (second identifier 1566)
- National record
- record SX 16 NE 5; monument 432358
- Wikidata
- Q31114303
Sources
References
- Fletcher, M. 1989. Stowes Pound; in Bowden, M., Topping, P. and MacKay, D. (eds), From Cornwall To Caithness, British Archaeol Rep no. 209, 71-9.
- Lysons, D. and Lysons, S. 1814. Magna Britannia. Vol 3, Cornwall.
- Mitchell, J. 1933. The parochial history of St Neots.
- Oswald, A., Dyer, C. and Barber, M. 2001. The creation of monuments. Neolithic causewayed enclosures in the British Isles,, Swindon: English Heritage, No 120.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 462.
- Polsue, J. ed. 1867-72, Lake's Parochial History of Cornwall.
- Silvester, R. 1989.The Relationship of First Millennium Settlement to the Upland Areas of the South-West. Proc Devon Archaeol Soc, 37, 176-90.