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Bury Castle
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0606
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0606 (606)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cardinham
- National Grid reference
- SX13536962
- Latitude
- 50.49656
- Longitude
- -4.63060
- Altitude
- 253 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 1, SW 1, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east); Outworks (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture, arable, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1813); Other (1882); Other (1973); Earthwork Survey (1978)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004457
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO33 (second identifier 1539)
- National record
- record SX 16 NW 8; monument 432566
- Wikidata
- Q31114311
Sources
References
- Johnson, N. and Rose, P. 1994. Bodmin Moor; an archaeological survey, Vol I, 48, Fig 32, RCHME Suppl Rept II.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 463.