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Blacketon Rings
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0605
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0605 (605)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Menheniot
- National Grid reference
- SX 2934 6016
- Latitude
- 50.41641
- Longitude
- -4.40350
- Altitude
- 100 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1882); Other (1970); Other (1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1007296
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO31 (second identifier 10375)
- National record
- record SX 26 SE 10; monument 435076
- Wikidata
- Q31114307
Sources
References
- Thomas, N. 1998. Blacketon Rings, Menheniot, Cornwall: an archaeological investigation, Unpublished assessment and evaluation report, Cornwall Archaeological Unit, Cornwall County Council.