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Bishops Wood
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0604
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0604 (604)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Allen
- National Grid reference
- SW82924874
- Latitude
- 50.29850
- Longitude
- -5.04950
- Altitude
- 70 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
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1740); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1880)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1020180
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO030 (second identifier 25196)
- National record
- record SW 84 NW 6; monument 428719
- Wikidata
- Q31114305
Sources
References
- Borlase, W. 1740. Parochial Memoranda.
- Henderson, C. 1914. Notebooks of parochial antiquities.
- Lysons, D. and Lysons, S. 1814. Magna Britannia. Vol 3, Cornwall.
- MacLauchlan, H. 1847. Annual report, J Royal Inst Cornwall, 29, 46.
- Polsue, J. ed. 1867-72, Lake's Parochial History of Cornwall, Vol I, 15.