Location
- Atlas number
- EN0609 (609)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cornwall
- Historic county
- Cornwall
- Parish, community, or townland
- Carn Brea
- National Grid reference
- SW686407
- Latitude
- 50.22087
- Longitude
- -5.24536
- Altitude
- 225 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 14 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1754); Excavation (1860); Excavation (1862); Other (1880); Excavation (1895); Other (1978); Other (1996); Other (1997); Excavation (1920-1929); Excavation (1970-1973); Other (1979-1985)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006704
- HER
- Cornwall and Scilly MCO37/38 (second identifier 18163)
- National record
- record SW 64 SE 5; monument 426086
- Wikidata
- Q31114339
Sources
References
- Burnard, R. 1896. Hill forts and camps, Plymouth Inst and Devon and Cornwall Nat Hist Soc Annual Report and Trans, 14, 1-54.
- Lawson Jones, A. 1997. Shaft Capping Contract 10: Carn Brea South. Unpublsihed assessment and evaluation reports, Cornwall Archaeological Unit, Cornwall County Council.
- Legge, A., Mercer, R.J., Samuels, J., Saville, A. and Smith, I.F. 1981. Excavations at Carn Brea, Illogan, Cornwall - a Neolithic fortified complex of the third century millennium BC, Cornish archaeol, 20, 1-204.
- Peter, T.C. 1896. The exploration of Carn Brea, Cornish Archaeol, 13, 92-102.
- Mercer, R.J. 1970. The Neolithic settlement on Carn Brea: preliminary report, Cornish archaeol, 9, 53-62.
- Mercer, R. 1972. The excavation of the Neolithic settlement site at Carn Brea 1972: Interim report, Cornish archaeol, 11, 5-8.
- Thomas, A.C. 1962. Unpublished material from Cornish Museum: I, Carn Brea finds in Camborne Public Library, , Cornish archaeol, 1, 104-106.