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Cadson Bury
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0607
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0607 (607)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- St Ives
- National Grid reference
- SX3433067385
- Latitude
- 50.48273
- Longitude
- -4.33661
- Altitude
- 94 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 2.53 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South east); In-turned (North west); Over-lapping (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1262); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1748); Other (1814); Other (2000); Other (1882-1883)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004494
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO34 (second identifier 6865)
- National record
- record SX 36 NW 5; monument 436704
- Wikidata
- Q31114323
Sources
References
- Anon 2000-2001. Note, Archaeology Alive: a review of work by the Cornwall Archaeological Unit, CAU, 9, 2000-2001, Cornwall County Council.
- Lysons, D. and Lysons, S. 1814. Magna Britannia. Vol 3, Cornwall.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 469.