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Caer Dane
Cornwall, England ยท Atlas EN0608
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0608 (608)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Perranzabuloe
- National Grid reference
- SW77755218
- Latitude
- 50.32754
- Longitude
- -5.12394
- Altitude
- 70 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1710); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1880); Other (1971)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1016108
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO36 (second identifier 19502)
- National record
- record SW 75 SE 12; monument 428225
- Wikidata
- Q31114331
Sources
References
- Gilbert, C.S. 1820. An historical and topographical survey of the County of Cornwall, Vol I, 206.
- Lysons, D. and Lysons, S. 1814. Magna Britannia. Vol 3, Cornwall, 249.
- MacLauchlan, H. 1847. Annual Report, J Royal Inst Cornwall, 29 (1847), 34.
- Page, W. ed. 1906. The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall, 1, London: James Street, 462.
- Tonkin, T. 1710. Parochial history of Cornwall, 460a.
- Warner, R. 1963. Parish of Perranzabuloe, Cornish Archaeol, 2, 69.